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When 350 grams of plutonium, the world's most toxic substance, shows up in a suitcase at the Munich airport, the imagination rushes to sci-fi scenarios. But the threat is real. Is this deadly material one more indication of nuclear proliferation? The basis for the next wave of terrorism...
Rentals of '70s sci-fi movie (starring O.J.) sure to increase...
...more than sport. It was romance. It meant meeting our destiny. Today it means little more than physical displacement. Compare the films of the early space age with the sci-fi of today. Compare 2001 with Robocop, Close Encounters with The Terminator. Compare John Kennedy's thrilling pledge to race to the moon with . . . what? No politician talks that way anymore. The new frontier is not the moon. It's HMOs...
This season what plugged-in Americans ages 6 to 11 are graduating to is the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Fox), an absurdly camp, live-action sci-fi show that in the past three months, airing six days a week, has become the top- rated children's program on TV. In Los Angeles the half-hour show has already garnered ratings that rival Oprah Winfrey...
...fi revulsion at cloning has continued to the present day. Even a show as technologically hip as "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ran an episode where the crew of the Enterprise defended their individuality by destroying clones of themselves made from stolen tissue...