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...playing tricks--programmed him to love, even as other film robots, like the Terminator, are designed to destroy. In the A.I. world, robots are made to give pleasure and, in David's case, offer joy. Gigolo Joe is a sex machine, David a love machine. The toy boy's sole purpose is to give and elicit affection. His obsession (in Kubrick's terms) or dream (in Spielberg's) requires him to do everything to achieve Monica's love--after she renounces him, after she abandons him, after she's gone. The woman is unworthy...
...summer-vacation nightmare: I'm seven months pregnant, trapped on a long-distance train with my two little girls and too little air-conditioning. My husband can't join us, so I'm the girls' sole protector and supplier of food, drinks and entertainment. For eight hours straight, I'm too worried about a kidnapping at one of the train's many stops even to go to the bathroom by myself or doze...
...Siamese soldiers perfected the martial art in the 16th century, and Thais have been flooring Burmese since as long ago as the 18th century, when soldier Nai Khanom won his freedom from captors by defeating 12 top Burmese fighters. To this day, many Thais ascribe their status as the sole unconquered Asian nation to Muay Thai...
...Tourism is not Arroyo's sole concern. The off-and-on Muslim rebellion in the southern Philippines, which dates back to the 1970s, is threatening to graduate from domestic inconvenience to international threat. Many Philippine Muslim leaders, like Abu Sabaya, were schooled and trained in Islamist strongholds such as Libya and maintain links with insurgents across the Middle East and South Asia. Asiri Abubakar of the University of the Philippines' Asian studies department says the south could become the "regional base of operations" for Asian Muslim terror groups. "If the Philippines does not watch out," he warns, "the southern Philippines...
...studies have their detractors. Some scientists cite the lack of archeological evidence as one of many problems with Alroy's study, and Ayliffe says it is unlikely that hunting was the sole cause of the Australian extinction. She suggests that the human use of fire, combined with hunting, may have been too much for the species to bear...