Word: jakes
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...scenarios of robots that evolve and manufacture ever-improving versions of themselves, and eventually develop human traits - the capacity to feel, to love, to hate. In such fiction, the climactic poignancy occurs when the automaton, love-stricken, sheds a tear. This is because the robot, like Hemingway's Jake Barnes in "The Sun Also Rises," has a sad incapacity to mate; surely that is one of the first defects the shrewd robots would correct...
...risked it. Five plane tickets to Seoul for our two redheaded birth boys--Kellen, 15, and Jake, 13--Rae, me and my wife Linda. We steeled Rae for the chance that her birth mother wouldn't show up. Come to think of it, we steeled ourselves...
...where you were born. This is the woman who held you. This was the city, the food, the smells. For them, it was two parts home ("It's so nice," Rae said amid a throng of Koreans on a street. "For once, people are staring at Kel and Jake instead of me") and three parts I'm-never-coming-here-again (a teenage boy ate dinner at his foster parents' home only to discover in mid-bite that they raise dogs for meat...
...that a party seeking to demonstrate continued vitality might try to put a little less emphasis on glory days that unfolded before the Beatles played Ed Sullivan. CNN underscored this early in the night by featuring a panel of whippersnapper journalists - The Weekly Standard's Tucker Carlson, Salon's Jake Tapper, TIME's Tamala Edwards - who in this "Big Chill" context came across like the sullen kids' table at the Woodstock reunion. (So enough about the baby boom, Gen X: What do you think of the baby boom?) It's hard to believe Kennedy was addressing them when he declared...
...what else has O'Connor been doing these past few years? Well, O'Connor, whose last full-length album, Universal Mother, was released in 1994, says she's been raising her son Jake, 11, and her daughter Roisin, 3. (O'Connor is divorced, and her children have different fathers, the former by an ex-husband, the latter by an ex-boyfriend.) She has also passed the time deciding which record company she wanted to move to after her old label, Chrysalis, went under (she is now signed to Atlantic). She has gone through years of therapy (she has charged...