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...first summer season of the millennium. England's former colonists, the Americans and the Irish, seem to be filling all the West End theaters. Two separate Tennessee Williams plays, Orpheus Descending and Baby Doll, made their homes in London for the summer, as did David Mamet's Speed the Plow, a three-hander trying to capitalize on that other London-based, three-actor, world-wide phenomenon, Art (an import from Paris, mind you). Even the self-proclaimed (actually, government-proclaimed) flagship of the English theatrical world, the Royal National Theater, found itself bowing its hat to the Americans with...
...last year or two, the town roads department has been experimenting with compounds, a gravel-and-clay surface, easier than dirt to plow and maintain - but not yet asphalt. That seemed a good compromise; the baby powder still fills...
...yeah, I can plow my own furrow, do my own thing. Sometimes I just wish I knew what my own thing...
...their stepped-up pace, the government scientists should complete their road map of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes by late June. But there are folks out there who could spoil the victory party. Scientist and entrepreneur Craig Venter's company, Celera, using a riskier "shotgun" approach to plow through all those letters, is working at a furious pace as well. Only two weeks ago, he announced that Celera had completed mapping the genome of Drosophila melanogaster, a.k.a. the fruit fly, a favorite tool of lab scientists. While the fruit fly genome is far less complex than the human, Venter...
...pundits tell us that the central division in our transnational world is between the "slow" cultures of the plow and the "fast" ones of the microchip, the gap between them accelerating at an unprecedented rate. But what is more of a vexation in our modern times--a temporal Tower of Babel, as you could call it--is that everything's mixed up: fast and slow are present in every country, often, and in every household. Ancient cultures, as in India and China, are eager to invite the future to come to stay, so long as it doesn't interfere with...