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...First the boomerang-toss reward challenge, for which Jerri won (there's a sexual metaphor in there somewhere) a free meal and a great opportunity to attempt gracious victory by clapping both hands to her face and yelling "Oh my God!" several times. (Alicia didn't buy it - is it me, or did she actually get kind of likable this week?) And as Jerri and Amber dined on seafood and iced tea and snarked about Tina and her own clumsy emotional fakery, the remaining seven seemed perfectly happy to hunker around the fire with another starch buffet...
...Fragments speak in an eerily contemporary voice. Heraclitus anticipated Einstein in the realization that energy is the essence of matter: "All things change to fire,/ and fire exhausted/ falls back into things." The metaphor of Heraclitean fire posited an absolutely unstable world, in constant flux, consuming and creating, the alternation and reconciliation of day and night, waking and sleeping, life and death, wet and dry, good and evil. "What was cold soon warms,/ and warmth soon cools./ So moisture dries,/ and dry things drown." And: "The earth is melted/ into the sea/ by that same reckoning/ whereby the sea/ sinks...
...Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company that uses cloning technology to develop human medicines: "We're really concerned that if someone goes off and clones a Raelian, there could be an overreaction to this craziness?especially by regulators and Congress. We're desperately concerned?and it's a bad metaphor?about throwing the baby out with the bath water...
...Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company that uses cloning technology to develop human medicines: "We're really concerned that if someone goes off and clones a Raelian, there could be an overreaction to this craziness--especially by regulators and Congress. We're desperately concerned--and it's a bad metaphor--about throwing the baby out with the bath water...
...There's something enigmatic about the series; you never know what to make of "Sock Monkey." Is it for kids? Is it satire? Is it sincere? Is it a metaphor? Is it meant to be funny? Once you accept the answer to all these questions is "yes and no," you can enjoy the head-space it puts...