Word: implanting
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...Hard boiled Wonderland and End of the World, 1985 A sci-fi tale set in the Tokyo of the future amid a technology war. In alternating chapters, the unnamed protagonist, the sole survivor of an experiment to implant decoder chips in humans, fights to reunite his mind and shadow. Winner of the Junichiro Tanizaki award, the Japanese Pulitzer...
...wrapping a sheet around his hand to vault over a wall with shards of glass on it, and somehow keeping track of the elusive Nicky in a big, unfamiliar city. Maybe our super-spy's brain, earlier rewired by The Company, has been accessorized with a Google Earth chip implant...
...Moore also likes to play Santa Claus. One child, who had been approved for one but not two cochlear implants when she started losing her hearing, received an OK for the second implant from CIGNA after her father waved the red flag of Moore's interest in the case. The filmmaker also sent $12,000 anonymously (well, not any more; it's in the movie) to a Moore-hating blogger who was going to shut down his site to pay for his wife's hospital bills. Most photogenically, Moore brought his 9/11 boat people to Cuba...
...actress. So to think of him for more than a second obliges one to contemplate, with a kind of cringing pleasure, his torso. The chest is large, white and flabby, suggesting a beached sea otter, and it's pocked with what looks like dozens of tiny, imperfectly attached hair-implant tufts. It might be a helicopter's eye view of merino sheep stranded on a tundra...
...society. There's a framework under which this can be remediated and repaired. We don't need anyone's involvement other than the people who've been trespassed on. The tort system in this country is broken when in class actions, such as the silicone-breast-implant issue, a small number of trial lawyers can come in and claim 40% of the take in cases often based on bad science. The winners are the trial lawyers...