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Big picture Technologist Raymond Kurzweil has a radical vision for humanity’s immortal future
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On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I’ve Got a Secret. He was introduced by the host, Steve Allen, then he played a short musical composition on a piano. The idea was that Kurzweil was hiding an unusual fact and the panelists — they included a comedian and a former Miss America — had to guess what it was.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Wednesday that “a new American moment” has arrived in international relations, “a moment when our global leadership is essential, even if we must often lead in new ways.”

Clinton said the administration has put into practice the ideas she laid out a year ago and has begun to build what she called “a new global architecture” of alliances and interests. As a prime example, she pointed to the administration’s successful drive to win U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran, which have been further strengthened by individual actions of major powers. She said the administration won over skeptics of new sanctions by emphasizing its interest in dialogue with Iran and renewing its own nuclear disarmament efforts

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Forbidding companies from forcing employees to have microchips implanted in their bodies isn’t just about protecting personal freedom; it might ward off the biblical “mark of the beast,” according to a lawmaker who’s pushing for such a ban in Virginia.

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