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...Credited with creating the “attack ad”, this fellow is now putting his skills to use by working for John McCain’s presidential ad campaign. In the 2000 race, he created an advertisement that flashed the word “rats?? next to Al Gore’s face before expanding to show the word “bureaucrats?...
...responsible for self control, as well as the part associated with pleasure. Volkow said her team had proved this with a number of experiments, including one in which rats were administered cocaine upon an auditory cue. When the experiment was repeated with the cues but without the drugs, the rats?? levels of dopamine were nearly the same, suggesting that the drug alone is not responsible for the pleasure experienced by drug addicts. A similar result was observed in an experiment with humans which did not involve any drugs at all. Subjects were shown both neutral control videos...
...sign of England’s and America’s historical privilege, and our distant removal from any lived totalitarian experience. Images of real totalitarian systems—people forced to eat their own feces, people thrown into blast-furnaces, people eaten alive by rats??these are, of course, not acceptable to our pampered senses: they would make most of us sick to our stomachs. Accustomed to rational governance, we cannot imagine what an irrational system would look and sound like. The dictatorship in “V for Vendetta,” for all its evil...
...away after repeatedly insisting he is not dead yet.) Not Dead Yet exposes important biases in the “right to die” movement, including the fact that as early as 1988, Jack Kevorkian advertised his intention of performing medical experimentation (“hitherto conducted on rats??) on living children with spina bifida, at the same time harvesting their organs for reuse...
Oryx and Crake, Atwood’s newest novel, explores the dark side of cloning and other scientific endeavors, comes from a long line of lab rats??her grandfather was a doctor, her father a biologist and her nephew and brother are researchers. Atwood herself planned to follow the family tradition, before landing in her current occupation. “I was headed toward being a biologist of some kind before I got kidnapped by writing,” she says...