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Will nanomachines one day be launched into our bloodstreams to monitor health and combat disease? Or will "self-replicating nanobots" proliferate out of control until they completely overrun the planet? A runaway plague of rogue nanobots wouldn't violate basic scientific laws, but that doesn't make it realistic. This extreme outcome is not likely, but it's not impossible either - and that's exactly what critics of the technology are worried about. It is foolhardy to venture predictions about what science will achieve this century. Scientific predictions have been notoriously awry in the past. In 1933 Lord Rutherford...
This June, TraveLeaders Group, a Coral Gables, Fla., travel-management company and travel agency, is planning a seven-day Big Fat Greek Cruise, which will sail from Venice to the Greek isles. Inspired by last year's runaway hit movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the theme trip, on First European Cruises, will feature conversations with some of the film's stars, Greek food, Greek culture and dancing, and "some plate smashing," says chairman Keith St. Clair. TraveLeaders expects 150 to 200 guests, and the average cost per person will be $1,000, not including airfare. The agency is promoting...
...Elizabeth Smart brainwashed, as her father insists? Does she need to be deprogrammed like some runaway Moonie or Hare Krishna? Or is she simply a victim of the famous Stockholm syndrome, named for a 1973 Swedish bank robbery in which the hostages began to identify with their captors...
Summers, on the other hand, has said that undergraduate life is not sufficiently intellectual and has spoken out on the need to combat runaway grade and honors inflation...
...poor—policies which include making basic items like bread, sugar and oil more affordable, and redistribution of wealth and property according to rules of “justice.” Like other foes of globalization, the regime aims to curb “runaway market forces” which are waging an “assault on the poor,” and establish “a firm launching pad for our fight against poverty and food insecurity.” What sets Zimbabwe apart is that it has actually enacted these anti-globalization...