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...Rice's Interview With a Vampire, "Dracula" gives vampirism an allegorical overtone of sexuality out of control. Periodic shots of blood cells under a microscope underscore the linkage of vampirism, sex, corruption, death, and, you guessed it, AIDS by implication. But even this association is fairly true to Bram Stoker's book. Stoker, by the way, died of syphilis...
...Bram Stoker's novel The Lair of the White Worm is nothing like a great book, but its outline offers Russell plenty of fodder for his fantasies. An archaeologist unearths the skull of a giant reptile and thus unleashes a pestilence on England's Peak district, courtesy of Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe). In her worship of a humongous subterranean worm, this venomous vamp sprouts fangs, spits at crucifixes, sups on the locals and searches for a sacrificial virgin -- no mean feat, since Russell has set his story in the 1980s...
...probably read the Bram Stoker original. You've probably heard Bela Lugosi say, "I never drink...wine." You've probably put on the play yourself in junior high school. But what other Harvard show offers a performance on Monday--Halloween night itself? Fangs for the memories...
...have to make a commitment to a coherent national space policy sooner rather than later. Enormous problems remain to be solved, and two decades is precious little time for developing a program that would land humans on another planet. The clock is running, and to NASA Ames Scientist Carol Stoker, the message from the Soviets is coming across loud and clear: "We're going to Mars, and the bus is leaving." And like her, more and more Americans are asking: Will the U.S. be aboard...
Space Scientist Carol Stoker, at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, points out that there would be benefits of artificial gravity beyond the physiological ones. "Toilets would flush properly, things wouldn't float in the air, and just think of surgery in zero gravity," she muses. Malcolm Cohen, chief of the neuroscience branch at Ames, worries about the possible physiological effects of rotation. "Weightlessness is the devil we know," he says, "and we have some idea how to overcome its effects. But artificial gravity in space is a devil we don't know well." Still, he concludes...