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...
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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 Andr...
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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 ...
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With steely arms sprouting cables and wires, the WAO-1 robot looks nothing like a relaxation device.But researchers at Tokyo's Waseda University hope the contraption will soon be deployed to hospit...
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Average commercial land prices across Japan rose 1.0 percent as
of July 1 from a year earlier, the first increase since the bursting
of the asset-inflated economic bubble in 1991, according t...
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(EDS: ADDING COMMENT IN 12-13TH GRAFS)
Average commercial land prices across Japan rose 1.0 percent as
of July 1 from a year earlier, the first increase since the bursting
of the asset-infla...
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MOSCOW, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Russia and India agreed on Monday
to boost defence ties by jointly developing a new military
transport aircraft but they were unable to sign a major nuclear
deal because...
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Dabbs Greer, a veteran character actor who played the Rev. Robert Alden in the TV show "Little House on the Prairie," has died. He was 90.Greer, a Missouri native, died Saturday at Huntington Hospi...
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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned of a threat of extremism and ethnic and religious intolerance in the months before parliamentary elections and he ordered law enforcement agencies to do...
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Vienna (dpa) - Party girl Paris Hilton is to attend Vienna's
prestigious Opera Ball as guest of Austrian socialite Richard Lugner,
Lugner himself confirmed at a press confer...
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Amman (dpa) - Director General of the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Amman Saturday on a
three-day visit and talks with Jordanian off...
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Amman (dpa) - Jordanian Minister of Trade and Industry Salem
Khazaleh and his Iraqi counterpart Falah al-Sudani on Thursday began
negotiations to establish a free trade zone...
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Robot masseur in Japan gives facials
