By Patricia Tupper Hyatt Amid predictions that by 2099 there won't be any clear distinction between man (and woman) and machine, is the quest for immortality pointless?
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translator with the United Nations for about three decades, Nadia Niedzielska has worked in New York City as well as in several countries in Europe and Africa.
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old pickup truck — loaded with mattresses, plastic bags of clothing, and a few sacks of groceries — chugged to a halt in front of the Instituto, a shelter for battered women in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay.