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...during the first eight weeks of gestation, when the embryo has not yet been differentiated as male or female. As obsessions go, this might not be one you would expect from a former high school football player from Boise, Idaho. But to him this stage represents a time of pure potential. The descent of the testicles in the male fetus is a moment to be regretted. He made peace with his own anatomy sufficiently to father an infant girl last October by Bjork, the Icelandic pop star. That child is guaranteed an interesting life...
...films have their moments of pure fascination. The almost erotic demolition derby in Cremaster 3--four sedans pulverize a mint-condition vintage black roadster in the lobby of the Chrysler building--is a scene of auto-Oedipal aggression that will stay with me for a long time. Barney reminds you sometimes of a sinister voluptuary. (That's a compliment.) At other times he seems more like a gee-whiz mythomaniac. (That's not.) There are lustrous episodes all through his films, amid stretches of state-of-the-art art boredom and Surrealist touches that remind you that Surrealism...
...journals and agreed to censor scientific research that could cause “potential harm” if it fell into the hands of terrorists. Although it appears that the editors were trying to protect the public by blocking sensitive research from being published, their motivations are much less pure. The journals are simply trying to protect themselves from government regulations. In the process, they will damage both the openness of scientific exchange and hinder the dissemination of information that could be used to prevent terrorist attacks...
McArthur River isn't much to look at from above ground--just a cluster of green, corrugated-metal buildings, a company lodge and an airstrip--but the mine is an industrial marvel. The rocks underground average 21% pure uranium, with pockets as concentrated as 80%, far richer than the typical 1% deposits at other mines. The ore at McArthur River is the richest in the world and is far too radioactive to handle conventionally; the miners extract it by remote control, using giant boring machines and scoop trams instead of pickaxes and shovels...
There are always some colorful details thrown in about the origins of the money. Sometimes it’s a payoff from an outgoing government, sometimes it’s an over-invoiced government contract. Other times it’s pure graft. The only common thread is that the money does not belong to him, which is the very reason he needs to get it into a foreign account quickly...