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Crake is the low-key mad scientist in Margaret Atwood's rueful tale of mad science, Oryx and Crake (Doubleday; 374 pages), a book about an awful future. He's the kind of guy who says things like "Let's suppose for the sake of argument that civilization as we know it gets destroyed." He didn't intend that remark as a commentary on the book he's in, but it certainly could apply, especially if you factor in his next line: "Want some popcorn...
Crake is the low-key mad scientist in Margaret Atwood's rueful tale of mad science, Oryx and Crake (Bloomsbury; 374 pages), a book about an awful future. He's the kind of guy who says things like, "Let's suppose for the sake of argument that civilization as we know it gets destroyed." He didn't intend that remark as a commentary on the book he's in, but it certainly could apply, especially if you factor in his next line: "Want some popcorn?" This is not quite a popcorn novel, but it's not all you would hope...
...University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and Melody Twilley, 19, a black prelaw student, are among them. The couple became engaged this past Valentine's Day after meeting on the Internet last year. When they started living together, Melody's dad, a businessman in mostly black Wilcox County, "got mad and made me pay my share of the rent," says Melody. But then he got to know Ali. Now Melody says that instead of looking at her fiance as "a white boy out to steal our women," her father welcomes him as a son-in-law-to-be with whom...
Running Like Mad...
...like to see them," she says. Zac Goldsmith, editor of the Ecologist magazine, says that the nanoscience community doesn't want to talk about potential risks. "No one in the industry doubts that nanotech is the most powerful tool we've ever had," he says. "But it's mad that we're charging ahead without any debate. People are nervous because scientists have made a lot of mistakes - DDT, CFCS, thalidomide. A mistake with nanotechnology could be very much more serious than anything we've seen before." Shand and Goldsmith have a point. As Time reported two weeks...