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...security business. It has shipped 7,000 chips worldwide and figures about 2,000 have been implanted. Applied CEO Scott Silverman hopes to sell chips to the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI--feeding into X-Files-type fears of biochipped government agents lording over the citizenry. A novel use: Baja Beach Club, a European nightclub chain, is offering "VipChip membership" to speed patrons through the ropes in Barcelona and Rotterdam. Some 430 clubgoers have signed on--at $1,300 apiece...
...finished," he says. "I haven't really thought about playing since I retired. I haven't thought once about my stats or what I achieved." Instead, he's thrown himself into fatherhood, property development, charity work - and writing. A children's book might be next, he says, or a novel. And no, he's not planning a move into the commentary box anytime soon. "I know I can handle cricket," he says. "I want to see what else I can do." The certainty with Waugh is that whatever he chooses, he'll do it until it hurts...
...South African writers and readers have worried that the thrill is gone, the edge lost, the fire dimmed. Like apartheid itself, those fears can now be swept into the dustbin of history. As it happens, four of South Africa's leading writers - Brink, Coetzee, Gordimer and Mda - have produced novels this year. Not all are great, but none is dull and together they confirm that the new South Africa is an exciting place to be a writer. The country's literary tradition has long been in white hands, but now black and mixed-race writers are clamoring to be heard...
...Coetzee has set the story in Australia, where he now lives. Let's hope some Elizabeth Costello takes control of his life and returns him to South Africa to find his inspiration. But lalela - listen. The man has fought the good fight - for literature and humanitarian values - in novels like Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K, as well as in savannahs of trenchant nonfiction. Who would begrudge him a little diversion? André Brink might. He too championed the anti-apartheid cause, paid his dues, had his works banned. And in his latest, Praying Mantis, which...
...mother's social rank. The mothers must thus operate the levers of society deftly so as to raise both their own position and, eventually, their daughters'. If you think that kind of ambition-by-proxy doesn't translate to humans, Hrdy argues, think again. "Just read an Edith Wharton novel about women in old New York competing for marriage potential for their daughters," she says...