Michael Crichton’s Next – related news

[Kahlessa]

Next is going to China! Here’s the press release from Harper Collins:

Harper Collins Announces Chinese Publication of Next by Bestselling Author Michael Crichton
Jilin Publishing Group and HarperCollins to Publish Four Crichton Titles in 2008
www.harpercollins.com/footer/release.aspx?id=636&b=&year=2008

And a story in Publishers Weekly:
HC Exports Crichton to China; Acquires More Local Titles
By Rachel Deahl, Publishers Weekly, 1/9/2008 7:13:00 AM
www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6518417.html

I wonder how Gerard the Parrot is going to come across in Chinese?

[Lukaran]

Gerard's popular culture references are going to be a witch to translate, I bet! Maybe they can find similar references in chinese movies and stuff.

[Kahlessa]

Perhaps but some of those lines, if not most of them, are so culturally based that they'll have to be changed completely to something that would resonate with the Chinese culture. I would love to talk to whoever is doing the translation about how they manage it!

[Kahlessa]

Gene Map Becomes a Luxury Item
By Amy Harmon, NY Times, March 4, 2008

On a cold day in January, Dan Stoicescu, a millionaire living in Switzerland, became the second person in the world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code.He is also among a relatively small group of individuals who could afford the $350,000 price tag....
www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/research/04geno.html

Here are links to the other stories in the series "The DNA Age":
topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/series/dnaage/index.html

[Kahlessa]

Lawyers Fight DNA Samples Gained on Sly
By Amy Harmon, NY Times, April 3, 2008

The two Sacramento sheriff detectives tailed their suspect, Rolando Gallego, at a distance. They did not have a court order to compel him to give a DNA sample, but their assignment was to get one anyway — without his knowledge.
Recently, the sheriff’s cold case unit had extracted a DNA profile from blood on a towel found 15 years earlier at the scene of the murder of Mr. Gallego’s aunt. If his DNA matched, they believed they would finally be able to close the case....

www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/science/03dna.html

[Kahlessa]

Congress Passes Bill to Bar Bias Based on Genes
By Amy Harmon, NY Times, May 2, 2008

A bill that would prohibit discrimination by health insurers and employers based on the information that people carry in their genes won final approval in Congress on Thursday by an overwhelming vote....
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/health/policy/02gene.html

[Kahlessa]

A Dissenting Voice as the Genome Is Sifted to Fight Disease
By NICHOLAS WADE, NY Times, September 15, 2008

The principal rationale for the $3 billion spent to decode the human genome was that it would enable the discovery of the variant genes that predispose people to common diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. A major expectation was that these variants had not been eliminated by natural selection because they harm people only later in life after their reproductive years are over, and hence that they would be common...
www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/science/16prof.html

[Lukaran]

Reality never lives up the the hype, it seems.

[Kahlessa]

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Supreme Court Rules Against Gene Patents
www.musingsonmichaelcrichton.com/2012/03/supreme-court-rules-against-gene.html