Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of that creativity, however, comes not from the director, but from Phillip K. Dick's original short story, "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale," the basis for Total Recall. Dick's story, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," was developed into the movie Blade Runner...
Harrison spent five years practicing and refining his technique on hundreds of sheep and monkeys. Even so, his first six operations on human fetuses with problems similar to Blake's failed: he was unable to save the babies because of difficulties encountered in handling their organs. After his success with Blake, Harrison performed a comparable prenatal operation on a little girl, who was also born healthy...
...been much kinder. Economic stagnation, diplomatic isolation and political repression have withered the nation of 2 million since it fell into Moscow's orbit in 1921. The most basic commodities are in scarce supply -- even meat, despite the fact that Mongolia has more than six times as many sheep as people. Half the meat production is exported in exchange for Soviet goods and loans. The exports help repay Mongolia's $5.5 billion foreign debt...
...what you have to to win. You lie, you cheat. Whatever it takes. But engage in civil discourse? Forget about it. You want to win, you follow the polls. Supporting the death penalty is just the epitome of the syndrome. It's the shepherds following the sheep, without stopping to think about what happens when the sheep get to the cliff...
...Ponzi served a three-year sentence. Paroled, he advertised a new scheme, 200% in 60 days. He was rearrested and eventually deported to his native Italy. Only two things were left behind: the usual dupes and the name Ponzi schemes, still used to describe illegal methods of fleecing the sheep...