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...learns in various hard ways that a community of digital beings can be just as constraining--and cruel--as the corporeal kind. Unwritten rules abound, and when Seabrook breaches a few, the Well's otherwise benevolent group mind turns on him in what one Well veteran calls a Chicken Peck--"where one of the flock shows a bit of blood, and a few of the other chickens (it doesn't take many) use it as a target to peck the bleeder to death...
This past Sunday marked Week # 663 on the New York Times' Best-Seller list for M. Scott Peck's Book of "Inspiration," The Road Less Traveled...
...TWELVE YEARS and 39 weeks, Peck's book has told the readers of America, the same culture that nurtured the catharsis-via-Oprah method of personal problem resolution and the so-called "cult of victim-hood," to stop complaining about how tough their lot is, get their respective chins up and just deal. "Life is difficult," as the book's mantra claims, but from Week 663, the view is probably a lot rosier...
Chirac also feels comfortable on both sides of the Atlantic, having spent time in the States as a student and a tourist. "He appreciates our culture, and one of his very close friends is Gregory Peck," says Sancton. "While his politics are decidedly Gaullist, he is the most American of all French Presidents in terms of style. Like Bill Clinton, he's down-to-earth, convivial--and he loves fast food...
...explosion, then, may mark not the invention of new hardware, but rather the elaboration of new software that allowed existing genes to perform new tricks. Unusual-looking arthropods, for example, might be cobbled together through variations of the genetic software that codes for legs. "Arthropods," observes paleoentomologist Jarmila Kukalov-Peck of Canada's Carleton University, "are all legs" - including the "legs" that evolved into jaws, claws and even sex organs...