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...attention to the next generation, to Archie's daughter Irie, an unwieldy girl who feels herself "a stranger in a stranger land" and to Samad's twin sons Magid and Millat, who become guinea pigs in a bizarre cultural experiment aimed at redeeming Samad's pride. His designs eventually intersect with those of a bona fide genetic engineer, with outrageous results...
NEOs are asteroids or occasional comets that periodically intersect or come close to Earth's orbit. If a NEO cuts through our orbital path at the same time that Earth happens by, it's curtains for a metropolitan area, a region or even global civilization, depending on the size of the interloper...
...been working alongside the country's most prestigious research facilities to conjure up ways of dealing with these hurtling rocks should an asteroid ever establish itself as a threat. "Once they've identified the asteroid," Jaroff says, "scientists can predict years, even decades ahead of time whether it will intersect the Earth's orbit at a moment when the Earth is there." And should scientists discover such a scenario looming on the horizon, Jaroff says there are many ways to engage, deflect or destroy the giant rocks, including the controlled use of nuclear bombs, whose blasts could nudge the asteroids...
...most popular guy in Midland City. The film also follows Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney), a slightly kooky science-fiction writer on his way to Midland City to attend the town's Fine Arts Festival as the guest of honor. When the divergent paths of these two strangers ultimately intersect, all hell breaks loose. For good measure, Nick Nolte takes a second crack at a Vonnegut adaptation (he starred in a movie version of Mother Night) as Harry LeSabre, Dwayne's closet-transvestite salesman...
...only instance in which laws and genetics should intersect, Watson said, is to stop individuals from using another's DNA. In his opinion, he said, employers and insurance companies should never have access to a person...