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...learning, as they say in Detroit, to walk the talk. For example, just days after he heard about the October plant closings and the $512 million loss, the chairman made the mistake of telling the Financial Times that the notion of a merger of equals had always been a fiction anyway: "If I had gone and said Chrysler would be a division, everybody on their side would have said, 'There is no way we'll do this deal.'" That comment alone drew so much resentment at Chrysler that he had to apologize. Schrempp, a man who so values reliable information...
This isn't science fiction. The National Cancer Institute and NASA plan to spend $12 million a year for the next three years to develop nanosensors--devices less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair--that will scan the body for the molecular signatures of cancer--the aberrant proteins found on malignant cells, for instance--and map the locations and shapes of tumors. If engineered to carry drugs or genes, the sensors could treat cancers one cell at a time, attacking malignant cells but leaving healthy ones unharmed. The result: an end to the pharmaceutical carpet bombing...
...film is very well played. Willis is good as a depressed man resisting instinctive, inchoate hints that he is not living up to his uncanny potential. And Jackson's ability to play perverse intelligence gets its best outing since Pulp Fiction. Robin Wright Penn is superb as the wife almost defeated by Dunn's inarticulate withdrawals, and young Spencer Treat Clark's hopeful patience with his troubled dad is fine...
...energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most of his speeches important enough for a TelePrompTer, his emphasis track was unhooked from the actual text. Suddenly, a throwaway line got too much fancy sauce, making him sound as if he were declaring armistice at the end of a science-fiction movie: "The human being and the fish can coexist peacefully...
...movie producer Rob Reiner told CNN early yesterday morning, this story is "stranger than fiction...