Word: raye
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...this conference. We will be talking about everything from human clones and designer babies to biowarfare and genetically modified corn. Will millions of other life forms go extinct before we have a chance to count them, as E.O. Wilson fears? Will artificially intelligent robots inherit the earth, as Ray Kurzweil predicts? And if genetics is a gold mine, as Wall Street promised, where is all the gold...
...Ray Lavietes Basketball Pavilion was dedicated in 1996 after a $3 million gift by Lavietes funded a major renovation of the facility...
Eventually, so does Ray Mitchell, the generous but by no means selfless man at the center of Samaritan. At 42, Ray is a successful TV writer who has turned his back on Hollywood and headed home to Jersey, to the housing project where he grew up and the daughter he hasn't seen much of. He volunteers to teach a writing class at his old high school. For Ray, self-appointed sunbeam is a role he warms to right away. Before long, he is recklessly lending big sums to near strangers and gathering twitchy characters under his wing...
...Ray you find some of Price. They're both from high-rise public housing, which is where Price learned the urban folkways he mapped out in his 1974 debut novel, The Wanderers, that made him, at 24, Studs Lonigan for the generation that would adopt the Ramones. Over the next nine years, he published two formidable books and one that was not so formidable, and discovered cocaine. After a struggle, he put drugs aside. Concluding that he was tapped out for a while as a novelist, he, like Ray, shipped himself to Hollywood, where he made a fortune writing films...
...airports look largely the same as they did before the Dec. 31 deadline, and much of the bomb screening will be done as it was previously--out of the sight of passengers. The security checkpoints--where passengers walk through metal detectors and put their carry-ons into X-ray machines--won't change...