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...tough detectives tracking sophisticated robots and dresses it in some gorgeously painterly images. As Sky Captain is set in the proto-past, Ghost 2 is set in the retro future--Blade Runner territory. Like so many films inspired by the stories of Philip K. Dick, this one is awash in meditation on the basic Phildickian questions: In a world where men and machines coexist, what does it mean to be truly human? And in a future world of wondrous and terrifying possibilities, what, if anything, is real? Can it be that, as Ghost 2 suggests, "humans are nothing...
This was one Olympic site that had been completed ahead of schedule--by some 2,500 years. It was free of commerce and awash in sportsmanship. In other words, it was unlike an Olympic event, ancient or modern. It was, as U.S. silver medalist Adam Nelson called it, "shot put Nirvana," held in the house of Zeus. With the sun rising over verdant hills, crowds streamed into the ancient grounds of Olympia, 200 miles west of Athens, for the shot put competition. With no stands and no scoreboard, the stadium stood as it had in A.D. 393, when...
...Donato stepped to the podium at the press conference formally announcing his hire as men’s hockey coach, a level of electricity, of giddy anticipation, unparalleled in recent memory swept over an audience already awash in the flickering lights of flashbulbs and waiting television cameras...
...military- and oligarchy-backed governments. Last week, U.S. ambassador to Haiti James Foley pointedly warned a gathering of Haitian business leaders that the hemisphere's poorest nation has no choice but to modernize: "Everything must change," he said, "mentalities must evolve profoundly." So far that looks unlikely. Haiti is awash in guns and factional violence; the police are virtually nonexistent and rebels and gangs still control many towns and cities; the economy is in ashes; the judicial system is a joke and a special presidential election has to be organized by the end of 2005. But Haiti's interim government...
...discovered what he took to be the Red Planet's famous canals. As it turned out, the canals were an optical illusion, but as more powerful telescopes and, later, spacecraft zoomed in for closer looks, there was no shortage of clues suggesting that Mars was once awash in water. Photographs shot from orbit show vast plains that resemble ancient sea floors, steep gorges that would dwarf the Grand Canyon and sinuous surface scars that look an awful lot like dry riverbeds...