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...Even as Antinori, Zavos and Boisselier made their case, tempers flared and governments, from the United States to Italy, reiterated their condemnation of the trio?s plans. Shrugging their collective shoulders, the scientists seemed unfazed. Antinori, for one, plans to go ahead with his cloning - on the safety of an undisclosed Mediterranean island...
...trio (always a bad sign) responsible for the new POTA?s blueprint had to have a different ape start the simian civilization, apparently just so the little fella could return for a truly ludicrous deux-ex-machina moment in the middle of the grand battle for planetary control - and so Davidson can borrow the pod and still get back home to wifey in time for dinner with the Feldmans. And the fact that home isn?t what he remembered is the kind of out-of-left-field "surprise" ending that gets mystery writers beat up at Ellery Queen conventions...
...Azerrad, who wrote the 1994 Nirvana bio "Come As You Are," well knows how indispensable Kurt Cobain's band was in alt-rock's rise to prominence, but "Our Band Could Be Your Life" is a lesson in the impossibility of reducing the revolution to an individual (or a trio). Its story goes like this: in the early `80s, a bunch of kids in unknown punk bands, like L.A.'s Black Flag, figured out that "calling up a pressing plant and getting their own record manufactured wasn't the mysterious, exclusive privilege of the giant record companies on the coasts...
...Unfortunately Asia and Latin America have gotten into the habit of believing they are dependent on this trio for growth. They have largely accepted, albeit grudgingly, that the three have the right to control the global economic agenda, not least through the International Monetary Fund, an organization that never criticizes Alan Greenspan's money-printing excesses but rarely hesitates to publicly lecture Asian governments, even the prudent ones...
...sure, there are technical problems to be overcome if Asian countries are to provide one another with the currency diversification they need to escape the stranglehold of the geriatric trio. But the world, not just Asia, could benefit from an Asian-led attempt to make the international monetary system more responsive to the Europe of today, rather than of the Bretton Woods-era. What is needed are some meaningful initiatives and a willingness to talk back to Washington. The alternatives are to stagnate with the status quo, or retreat into controls and protectionism unworthy of Asian success. That requires countries...