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Frightened ethicists often tout Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" as a nightmarish blueprint of where science could lead us. Huxley envisioned a world of factory-produced human beings, engineered and brainwashed to fill society's different needs...
...popular movie Lorenzo's Oil did more than tout a possible cure for a rare and fatal hereditary disease. Based on a true story, the 1992 film also vilified the medical establishment for being slow to accept the possibility that a combination of vegetable oils developed by Augusto and Michaela Odone might have improved the condition of their son Lorenzo, 14, who suffers from a degenerative nerve illness called adrenoleukodystrophy. Now a two-year study from France concludes that the remedy, named for the Odones' son, is worthless -- at least for the milder, adult form of the ailment. Writing...
...beef, and Washington, D.C., outlets are featuring the Mega Mac, which stacks up two quarter-pound patties with cheese, lettuce, pickles and special sauce on a sesame-seed bun, of course. Appropriately, the chain's current promotional tie-in is with the movie Jurassic Park: ads tout "Dino-Size" fries and soft drinks fit for a Tyrannosaurus...
Since activists and fund raisers have a marked preference for large figures, Americans might be tempted to lop off some digits whenever they're lobbed a statistic. Alas, such a simple solution doesn't work when it comes to official numbers. Governmental authorities misleadingly tout both high and low statistics...
...issue of empire adds a complicating element to his reception in this country. American publishers, catering to a society which still insists on racially segregated literary traditions, tout Phillips as a part of a "new wave of young Black writers," along with novelists like Darryl Pinckney and Charles Johnson. But Phillips says he fits in more with other British writers who were "born in the old empire...People like Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri and Salman Rushdie...In the last ten years or so a lot of British writers have had a fix from another part of the world and have...