'Sleep Dealer' Injects Sci-Fi Into Immigration Debate
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Alex Rivera's eye-opening film delivers a message at Sundance: As technology marches forward, the gulf between the haves and the have-nots will widen into an ugly abyss.
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In the sci-film film, Hayden Christensen teleports through time, space, and enormous plot holes.
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Did the famous screensaver, SETI@home, uncover the first strong evidence for an extraterrestrial signal? The SETI Institute's Seth Shostak discusses how hyperbole can misrepresent the last addition to a list of stellar candidates.
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Sci-fi versions of baby blocker in a can could turn out to be loads of fun. In Sex Drive Daily.
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NEW YORK  Â The story lines are unabashedly goofy. Cavemen invent the wheel to transport a beer cooler made of stone, and a car buyer enlists the help of a tribal warrior in case he needs some extra negotiating leverage at the dealership.
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"Appleseed," a new animated science-fiction spectacle from Japan, has a plot that frolics in the no-man's land between fiendish complexity and utter incomprehensibility.
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Sci-fi like Michael Crichton's "Next" brings up the most important ethical conversations we're not having
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Mel Gibson's film about the Mayan civilisation is criticised by indigenous Mayan activists.
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PHOENIX, Arizona  - In recent weeks the battle lines in a heated debate in the United States over illegal immigration have been drawn across the sidewalk outside an Arizona furniture store.
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Local filmmakers have to tread around a scissor-wielding government censor whose logic is sometimes hard to follow
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Anyone living in Canada who tuned into TVO last night saw an eye-opening documentary called El Contrato. The film, directed by Min Sook Lee, follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four from Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to work for eight months of the year as migrant labourers picking tomatoes -- in return for wages and working conditions that no locals will accept. Despite their fear of almost certain repercussions, the workers voice their desire not just for better working conditions, but for the simple dignity and respect that all human beings deserve.     Growers hire foreign workers under the government's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), which is administered by the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (F.A.R.M.S) in Ontario (and by F.E.R.M.E. in Quebec, New Brunswick and P.E.I.). Because the growers monitor themselves, and because there is a long line of jobless men "back home" willing and eager to take the place of those in the program, the workers are as ripe for exploitation as the fruit they pick.
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In 'The Science of Sleep,' a dreamer retreats into a fantasyland. Things go swimmingly until he wakes up.
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"The Paranoia Switch" (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 202 pages. $26), by Martha Stout: Opponents of the Bush administration have long accused the government of trafficking in fear &#151; using terror alerts, for example, to distract the public and prevent citizens from questioning authority.
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I once thought that worrying about what we should broadcast to extraterrestrials made as much sense as fretting over the small talk I'd venture with King Carl XVI Gustaf if I won the Nobel Prize. I reckoned there was no need to dwell on the problem, as it was both hypothetical and irrelevant.
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A bevy of bold-faced celebrities is backing a bill to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. More than 30 actors, writers and musicians &#151; including Diane Keaton, Carlos Santana and "Million Dollar Baby" writer Paul Haggis &#151; took out an ad Monday in the trade paper Variety urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to approve the bill, claiming it would make roads safer and that driving is a civil right.
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Two prominent lawmakers call a controversial program that assigns risk scores to international travelers secret and unlawful. The Bush administration disagrees, saying it's talked about the program repeatedly. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Bumper cannabis crops  -  and tighter border controls  -  are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country