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...Drug Administration approval, doctors will load a wide-bore needle with a microchip containing a few kilobytes of silicon memory and a tiny radio transmitter and inject it under the skin of their left arms, where it will serve as a medical identification device. It sounds like science fiction. (Remember the Borg on Star Trek? Resistance is futile!) But VeriChip is quite real. The Jacobs family could be the first in a new generation of computer-enhanced human beings...
...fell so hard he ended up inside the Administration), Klein seemed the most famously disappointed whenever the good Clinton gave way to the bad. Klein expressed it best in Primary Colors, the novel about a larger-than-life good ole boy with appetites as expansive as his brain. Fiction allowed Klein (writing as "Anonymous") to fill in the blanks about Clinton with things he knew to be true but no reporter could document. After reading the book, you just knew that Clinton stuffed his face with doughnuts till sugar spilled out of his mouth and that he would cheat...
...memorable sequence involving Irons, I caught myself wishing for a more violently humorous depiction of Mara’s fate. While she was stuck behind bars and looking pallid, I was hoping for some cinematic, futuristic depiction of the famed “bodice ripper” genre of fiction. And in my yearning for this naughtiness the real problem of the movie is revealed. The Time Machine is stuck in trying-to-please-every-demographic-land. It’s rated PG-13 so that children cannot see it; there’s no foul language, but there...
...hands of demagogic politicians, they’ll use it to inflame, to increase their own popularity.” For this reason, Cook says he isn’t ready to move on to a different subject. “The whole reason I got into writing fiction is that I got this idea that fiction could not only entertain but also carry some information that could hopefully help people make up their minds on some sort of public policy,” he says...
...handful of English concentrators get selected each year to write creative theses. Some write poetry, others essays, and a few try their hand at fiction. But Joe C. Gfaller ’01 did what no one had done: he wrote a musical. Last year he composed the lyrics, libretto and music for a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. And as if that were not an adequate project, he also wrote a 45-page justification of adaptation and the nature of narrative. “I purported a theory of means through which a story...