Word: flocking
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EVITA Defying their Vice President's plea to boycott, Argentines flock to First Lady's resurrection on film...
...five. A single clone might take a dislike to me--and then what? Besides, if I wanted just one kid, why not go out and have one the normal way? The whole point of this procedure was to have lots of exact genetic copies of me--to create a flock of worshipful children who would love me as much as I'd enjoy watching them worship...
...that a community of digital beings can be just as constraining--and cruel--as the corporeal kind. Unwritten rules abound, and when Seabrook breaches a few, the Well's otherwise benevolent group mind turns on him in what one Well veteran calls a Chicken Peck--"where one of the flock shows a bit of blood, and a few of the other chickens (it doesn't take many) use it as a target to peck the bleeder to death...
...White, the proclaimed Minister of Defense, who turns every podium into a pulpit, said to the congregation, "Green Bay, I hope you're proud of us, because we are proud of you." Quarterback Brett Favre, who has been through a little too much for his 27 years, reminded the flock of a promise he had made. "I remember telling the fans and the media before the season started that we were going to the Super Bowl. In two weeks we'll be in New Orleans." If not for frozen tear ducts, there might not have been...
MARNE-LA-VALEE, France: It was a scheme even Sartre would have appreciated. Build a massive American theme park a short drive from Paris. Fill it with happy, smiling faces, quaint rides and catchy, inoffensive music and wait for the cultured, sophisticated Europeans to flock to it. It was absurd, a sure failure. Imperial America at its most foolish. Five years ago, Parisians smoking cigarettes at Les Deux Magots sniggered into their cafe au laits as Disneyland Paris opened. No way would the land that invented Existentialism, perfected ennui and made dourness hip go for the hyperactive cheeriness of Mickey...