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...cases where the Innocence Project has freed someone, police have captured the guilty person--including serial rapists and killers...
Especially if the subject is talking about dating a serial killer or building a friendlier abattoir. Morris is drawn to the Frankensteinian: inventors, self-styled scientists and folks on weird quests of self-discovery. They can be creepy, like Kent, but their stories are moving too. Take Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who empathizes with animals because she thinks in images, which, she contends, is how they think as well. She invented the "stairway to heaven," a slaughterhouse design that uses optical illusions to lead cattle calmly to their death, yet has a bond with the beasts born...
...Cherry Falls: Now this is a high concept. A serial killer stalks a small Midwestern town, butchering young victims who seem to share no common characteristic. And then--gasp!--the link is discovered. They're all virgins! To end the killer's spree, then, there's only one solution: Throw a sex party! All the town's teenagers get together for well-organized orgy, but the killer shows up just in time. As long as they don't cast Jennifer Love Hewitt, we have ourselves a winner...
...next three days were marked by serial slowdowns at some of the biggest sites on the Web: Amazon.com eBay, CNN.com (owned by Time Warner, parent company of TIME), ZDNet, ETrade, Excite. Like so many virtual vandals before him, the phantom foe clearly craved attention. He got it in the shape of a front-page media frenzy, a full-scale FBI investigation and a hastily convened White House conference on Web hacking. And yet he stubbornly refused to show up at his own party, prompting PC paranoia and all manner of conspiracy theories...
...realized that the crux of Felicia's Journey is rooted in the Irish culture," Egoyan admits of the tale about a pregnant woman searching for her lover who falls under the sway of a morally conflicted serial killer. "There were many small elements of the story that contributed to the decision as well, such as the fact that abortion really is still illegal in Ireland...