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...Percentage of male respondents who said their dream is to help humankind...
...then there's that look. Alba's Max simply looks like the future--a character who is literally the best of humankind embodied in a form that none of us can claim for our own tribe. Which, granted, may lay a tad much social import on a stylish, pumped-up, hellaciously fun comic book of a series. So let's just put it this way: we have seen the Woman of the Future, and she kicks butt...
...this five-episode series, author-illustrator David Macaulay (The Way Things Work) looks at megastructures--bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels--and the aspirations they embody. The series is probably a touch light for architecture buffs. For the layperson, it's an engaging look at how and why humankind shaped the landscape with seemingly impossible structures, and was shaped in turn by them...
...crops are ever more finely mapped, and as the tools for transferring genes become ever more precise, the possibility for tinkering with complex biochemical pathways can be expected to expand rapidly. As Potrykus sees it, there is no question that agricultural biotechnology can be harnessed for the good of humankind. The only question is whether there is the collective will to do so. And the answer may well emerge as the people of the world weigh the future of golden rice...
...election must undergo initiation into the terrible secrets of power. Led into the 'granite core' of a mountain - into the innermost sanctum of esoteric knowledge - he looks for the first time upon the horror that scientists and their masters have created for the country and for humankind." And so: "Reagan cuts through the arcane and dangerous knowledge with pure common sense and vows to deliver his people from impending doom." This is piffle, but interesting piffle, with a ring of truth...