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These stakes are laid bare by Cassandra Medley in her play “Relativity,” which ran at the Magic Theater in San Francisco this spring, in a production directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe.
By 1852, at the peak of the mining boom, there were over 100,000 prospectors in the region, all fiercely individualistic, working away at their personal, private stakes rather than banding together in organized syndicates.
One detail: China will let U.S. firms buy stakes in Chinese telecom companies, but only up to 50 percent ("The forces of darkness in the Chinese telecom bureaucracies are going to have to slink under the rocks again," the LAT quotes one exultant pro-trade lobbyist).
Eons of combat over such high genetic stakes have led to males that are about twice the size of females.
In this world, the game is redesigning human beings, the stakes are ownership of the fountain of youth, and the scandal is what passes as "ethical."