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...their needs--up to the mental age of 15--are provided for, and sex is not an issue since the system's mastermind, Merrick (Sean Bean), has simply eliminated that messy urge. He feeds them on two myths. One is that they are the only survivors of a vast "contamination" that has wiped out the rest of human life. The other is that there's a paradisical, uncontaminated island on which you can win residence by giving birth or through a lottery that is the clones' major source of entertainment...
...could dispute that the result is formidably learned. Eco’s knowledge is vast, and, under only the vaguest pretenses of narrative, “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana” lets him broach subjects ranging from Dante’s Inferno to Dick Tracy comics...
Harvard researchers are developing computer software that they say will revolutionize medicine by sifting rapidly through vast amounts of data to diagnose illnesses and predict treatment effectiveness...
There aren’t many chances for the acting in the film to impress audiences. The character development is satisfactory but not great: actors spend the vast majority of the movie running, swimming, stumbling, and hiding away from the deadly tripod machines. But the brief development and Cruise’s natural charisma are enough to keep the audience’s sympathy—and attention...
...like Bollywood actress and model Aishwarya Rai. The marketing thrust started with the 2000 Census, which revealed that during the 1990s the number of Indians in the U.S. more than doubled--making them the fastest-growing Asian minority. There are some 2.5 million desis in the U.S., and the vast majority are Indian. That may not seem terribly significant compared with, say, 40 million Hispanics, but consider how premium a customer a South Asian is: Indians alone commanded $76 billion worth of disposable personal income last year, according to market-research firm Cultural Access Group, using figures from the University...