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After hearing a comment like that, think to myself, "Is there something wrong with me? Is there a genetic disposition for Latino liberalism? Am I, then, some kind of political deviant, phony Hispanic, a mutant of sorts...
...being created in the '50s, Vegas' Strip was a mutant kind of American main drag, an absurdly overscaled Main Street for cars instead of people. Everywhere else in the country the shopping mall was replacing the traditional downtown. But now the Strip in Las Vegas has come full circle, its vacant stretches filling in with so many new hotels and casinos that what had been the ultimate expression of car culture has masses of tourists walking from Bally's to Caesars to Treasure Island, and from the Luxor to the Excalibur to the MGM Grand. The Strip is virtually...
While legions of scientists are hunting down mutant genes like the culprit that causes some colon cancers, other researchers are seeking ways to fix the damage done by these mistakes of nature. Still in its infancy, the field of "gene therapy" has spawned dozens of experiments aimed at treating ailments ranging from cystic fibrosis to brain tumors. The goal is to transplant new genes into humans to do the work of defective ones -- or to give patients extra genes useful in fighting diseases...
...against it. That vehement distaste led him to exclude the Godfather movies from his recent purchase of TV rights to 300 Paramount movies. Odd, then, that he's buying New Line, a company whose success has derived from gratuitous martial-arts violence (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies) and gratuitous slasher-film violence (its Nightmare on Elm Street series, the Friday the 13th series...
...worse. Sporting the top graduate school of business administration in the country. Harvard cannot even manage its own finances. (An anology with the second-to-last place Oakland A's bloated payroll and its spoiled children, comes to mind.) It has brought to life in the HMC a mutant of one of Crichton's dinosaurs: a Moneysaurus-Rex. In place of the don't-play-God-with-nature message of Jurassic Park, we get a don't-play-ball-with-the-Harvard-endowment...