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...movie is pretty obvious," Devlin admits. "The closest we get to a social statement is to play upon the idea that as we approach the millennium, and we're no longer worried about a nuclear threat, the question is, Will there be an apocalypse, and if so, how will it come?" In ID4, it comes to us. Once man, and movies, dreamed of conquering space; then we got to the moon and woke up. Now sci-fi films are passive-aggressive: we wait for the spacemen to drop by. And if the visitors are hostile, we go nuclear on their...
...headed NBC hit 3rd Rock from the Sun to the time-travel capering of Sliders on Fox, from Showtime's The Outer Limits and Poltergeist: The Legacy to the fact-based (or factoidal) Unsolved Mysteries and Sightings. Two of the series, The Sentinel on UPN and Fox's new Millennium, from The X-Files creator Chris Carter, are psychic cop shows. The media sky is darker with eerie phenomena than a UFOlogist's nightscape. As a serial killer whispers in the first episode of Millennium (the creepiest TV premiere since Twin Peaks), "You can't stop...
...successive conquerors have found there an unshakable primal attachment, however different their rites and rituals. But instead of living up to their sacred ideals, the religious conquerors always fell into warfare for sole possession of the place, a battle that goes on unabated as the city enters its fifth millennium...
Traditionally, cultures become more fascinated with the past as a millennium approaches, so this rush to scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts is all the more disturbing. We can't get enough news about tombs discovered in Egypt and terra-cotta warriors unearthed in China, yet the good people of Boston now see the Green Monster in Fenway not as the Great Wall it is, but as some big slab of Sheetrock that can be transferred to a new site with better access, easier parking, more seats, and, oh yes, more corporate suites...
...hard part [for Millennium researchers] is finding patient populations particularly with complex genomic causes where more than one region is affected," said Tepper, who graduated from Harvard Medical School. "Through mathematic algorithms, clinical phenotyping and associations to the genome, we can dissect complex linkages that have given confusing results in the past...