THE DREAM RUN: How Michigan men's lacrosse went from fledgling program to NCAA tournament But I'm sure the story sounds better that it was me.' Honest to god, just right place, right time, it could have been any guy out there. 'I just keep thinking how lucky and blessed I am to even be on the team. 'It's certainly something you imagine as a kid, growing up for your hometown team, but it's surreal. 'I don't think there's anyway anyone could ever imagine that,' Thompson, in his fifth year, said Wednesday afternoon, still laughing as he tried to process the moment four days later.

Instead, they find themselves right at the center of it.In Thompson's fantastic finish Sunday in Ithaca, New York, he combined his hometown roots and his athletic genes for the memory of a lifetime: After spending four years at Georgetown, he transferred to his hometown school and scored the first hat-trick of his collegiate career, then added a fourth goal - the winner in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, to propel Michigan lacrosse to a 15-14 overtime victory over No.

When he wakes up in hospital after an explosion and finds that his wife and son have mysteriously vanished, Richard realizes: he and his family have become more than just bystanders in a storm of rivaling ideas pertaining humankind’s salvation between dystopian reality and digital utopia. Richard Nolan is one of the few journalists openly criticizing this development. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war.

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