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...that opposing teams score against him, without help from errors, for every nine innings that he pitches. In this ERA of a lively baseball, when an era of 4 a game is considered good, Pedro's ERA is an astonishing 0.99. The modern-day full-season record is Bob Gibson's 1.12, posted in 1968 and considered untouchable--until...
...limb some of our contributors were willing to go," says Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who edited three of our Visions installments. "We've got M.I.T. professors confidently making predictions--of computers' gaining consciousness or robots' throwing off their chains--that go farther than anything William Gibson has written...
...with the subtlest wrinkle of a brow, sobs with a stifled sigh. In a season of nine-figure budgets, the movie was made for chicken feed ($42 million). It also boasts an accent that is defiantly English--Yorkshire, even--with a dash of Yank bravado from visiting star Mel Gibson...
...becomes a chicken with its head cut off. This fowl existence is driving even Ginger (Julia Sawalha, known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson), the "flying rooster" from a traveling circus, and he vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky the flying churl plays up to "all the beautiful English chicks," Mrs. Tweedy has bigger, nastier plans. She has bought...
...William Gibson's classic 1984 novel Neuromancer, characters jack into the matrix by inserting "microsofts" into their skull