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...just wasn't that memorable. Suffice to say that there's much bounding about by furry, blurry CGI werewolves, quite a few decapitations and a poignant but nifty crisping of one of the vampires when exposed to sunlight. Being set in an earlier day (night), Lycans renounces the whizzing Matrix-like bullets of the first two movies for swords and a heavy-metal bow-and-arrow contraption that brings certain death to just about anyone but Lucian...
...dead. But there is an incredibly rich world of hip-hop that has been literally buried. I tell my friends and students, That's why they call it the underground - because it's in fact buried. But it's not dead; it's an underworld. It's like the Matrix, an alternative world that has its flaws but is part of a living force...
...Specifically, there is a change in chromatin structure so that the DNA collapses and forms a crystal matrix, inhibiting gene expression. Instead of the dormant organism using energy to sense the environment, it acts as a biophysical switch—when environmental conditions change, the chromatin relaxes and gene expression can resume...
...final quarter, usually a boom-time for shops thanks to pre-Christmas gift splurges and post-Christmas bargain-hunting. Market research company Synovate forecasts a drop of 7.3% on shopping trips in December. Says Tim Denison, a retail psychologist and director of Synovate, which has used the same matrix to predict retail trends since 1995: "We haven't seen a figure like that leap out of our Christmas forecasts ever." (See Top 10 Black Friday Gifts...
...Foundation's name carries unfortunate echoes of Li's 2001 movie The One - an execrable film, which borrows from The Matrix to an embarrassing degree. Its plot - Li plays a cop saving the world from a version of himself who arrives from a parallel universe and desires to become a god - is doubtless some sort of comment on the struggle between egotism and responsibility. But it's far better to think of the One Foundation as so called because of its essential idea: that if every able person in China were to contribute one renminbi (about 15 cents) once...