Michael Crichton has been called a "megastar" who has made a resounding impression on the literary world. Critics applaud him as a writer who is entertaining to read and who can "elaborate a gripping high concept into a crackerjack tale" (Publishers Week...

Michael Crichton (born 1942) is best known as a novelist of popular fiction whose stories explore the confrontation between traditional social and moral values and the demands of the new technological age. His most successful novel, Jurassic Park (1990),...

Michael Crichton has had a number of successful careers--physician, teacher, film director, screenwriter--but he is perhaps best known for pioneering the "techno-thriller" with novels such as The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and Jurassic Park. Whether writi...

It has swept-back wings, small fins near its nose and a turbofan engine. It knocks down enemy planes with missiles and guns, or bombs targets on the ground. It's called the Jian-10 or J-10 (Jian means fighter in Chinese), and it's China's answer to the...

Peter Huntsman, president and CEO of the chemical company that carries his family's name, said he couldn't leave a big pile of money on the table by ignoring a last-minute buyout bid.That's why Huntsman Corp. terminated a $5.6 billion deal Thursday with Basell AF, paying...

The war to end all wars -- WWI -- had ended. America was heading into the Roaring '20s.Indeed, business was about to boom -- except for the fledgling flight industry. That idea, launched 15 years earlier in a brief takeoff in Kitty Hawk, N.C., was...

The forward and center fuselage sections of Boeing Co.'s first 787 look lonely at one end of the sprawling factory. There are no overhead cranes that lower pieces of the plane into position, no huge fixed tools scattered across the length of the production line.Instead,...