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With Prey Crichton goes from dino to nano: the baddie comes from the currently hot field of nanotechnology, the science of building microscopic machines. The hero is an unemployed computer whiz named Jack Forman, a likable blank who has the misfortune to be married to Julia, a workaholic exec at Xymos, a shady Silicon Valley start-up. Xymos builds tiny nanorobots that possess no intelligence of their own but can assemble themselves, insect-like, into swarms capable of solving complex problems, reproducing and even evolving. Since the thoughtless hubris of scientists is Crichton's Big Theme, all this must...
...short, pudgy Musharraf, who was nicknamed Gola, or ball, finding a similar avenue for achievement would prove more challenging. At Forman Christian College, a Presbyterian boarding school in Lahore, Musharraf found his metier: competitive athletics. If his brothers had always been better at figures and letters, Pervez would prove himself on the playing fields. Nasrullah Khan, a schoolmate who now heads his alma mater's botany department, remembers Musharraf entering a bodybuilding competition in his freshman year in which students struck poses before a panel of teachers in the gymnasium. Gola's baby fat had melted away; he took third...
This interest in history is essential, because each Minute Man must research his character in depth. For instance, Forman portrays John Hosmer, a young man who was set to attend Harvard until his benefactress, Madam Ryall, died. Instead, Hosmer became a shoemaker and Minute Man who survived the war and was around in 1835 to see the first reenactment...
...colonial garb and running onto the field to tend to the dead each year. “Amongst kids of a certain age group, it seems to be something of a status symbol in this area to be involved with the Minute Men,” says Forman. “She’s gone to school in her clothes. It’s very different from when I was a kid and that kind of thing would not be considered so cool...
...Apthorp House, was home to colonial troops during the war, as were a number of Yard dorms. “The University actually moved to Andover for a time in 1775 while many students were off fighting in their local militias and for the British,” says Forman, who has researched the Revolutionary history of Harvard...