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There's a new matchmaking service in town. The matchmaker? A DNA test. Photo: Handout The kids are finally back at school and you're finally able to breathe a little easier. Be sure to practise self-care and unwind by watching this month's latest TV shows. The One Based on the novel of the same name by John Marrs, The One is set in a future where finding your life partner is made incredibly easy – by simply taking a DNA test. While the technology greatly revolutionises the dating world, it also complicates things. It all comes to a head when a man commits suicide and its inventor is implic...

"When the doorbell rings three in the morning it's never good news."  The quote could be taken from Ian Fleming, but in fact it is the opening line of Stormbreaker, the first novel in Anthony Horowitz's globally successful Alex Rider series. The echo of Fleming is notable for two reasons: firstly, Alex is a teenage spy who's saved the world nearly as many times as James Bond (13 times and counting). Secondly, the stories are played totally straight: Horowitz saw himself as writing "an adult book for kids" and Alex's world is no less dangerous or brutal than Bond's. The stakes are high -- S...

January 15, 2021 On its face, the premise of “Alex Rider,” a streaming show about a teenager who is recruited to be a spy, does not inspire much confidence for the prospective viewer. One can just imagine a whiny teenager trying to balance finding a date for prom and finishing homework by day while sparring with supervillains and thwarting their world domination schemes by night. In between ever more ridiculous scenes, this boy would also struggle with his identity and weep bitter tears over a lost father figure. This was exactly what happened in the 2006 movie, which was a critical and f...

Quote, textbook mob tactics. "the president should take no statement or take any action to obstruct congress's independent oversight and investigative efforts, including by seeking to discourage any witness from testifying in response to a duly authorized request from congress. joyce vance, as a former prosecutor, point blanc, is that witness tampering what we watched from giuliani and the president? >> it's close. it's hard to say in a vacuum whether something is witness tampering or not? witness tampering is the use of intimidation, in this case to either delay or keep a witness from testify...

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