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Simpson received national acclaim for a series of "anti-acid" river projects--limestone tablets deposited in various streams to neutralize the acidity of the water...
Recently, it could be said, similar acclaim has emerged for writers from former Eastern European bloc countries. Names such as Kundera, Pavic, and Kadare have become more familiar to Western ears, and are strangely reminiscent of Latin American novels in their depictions of brutal political repression and the concurrent intellectual resistance. Although they draw upon strong and diverse national literary traditions, writers such Ismail Kadare can be considered part of a distinctively Eastern European group of writers finally gaining the international recognition they deserve...
...make the characters in video games more realistic, actors are being recruited to serve as models. Acclaim, the video-game company that made Mortal Kombat, has created a special "motion capture studio" for this purpose. A martial-arts expert with as many as 100 electronic sensors taped to his body sends precise readings to a camera as he goes through his moves -- running, jumping, kicking, punching. The action is captured, digitized and synthesized into a "naked" wire-frame model stored in a computer. Those models can then be "dressed" with clothing, facial expressions and other characteristics by means...
Cover (clockwise from top left): Star Trek: The Next Generation/Spectrum HoloByte, Inc., for 3DO 7Interactive Multiplayer; Sonic the Hedgehog/Sega of America, Inc.; Voyeur/Philips CD-i -- Philips P.O.V.; Super Mario/Nintendo of America Inc.; Jurassic Park Interactive from MCA ( (c) Universal City Studios, Inc., & Amblin Entertainment, Inc.) for 3DO Interactive Multiplayer; Acclaim's Mortal Kombat for the Super NES; "Disney's Aladdin" for Sega Genesis, Disney characters (c) The Walt Disney Company
...Late Late Movie? No, these are characters from Mortal Kombat, America's top-grossing arcade game last year and the focus of a growing debate about whether violence in video games has finally gone too far. The issue came home for millions of parents and kids last week when Acclaim brought out four new versions of Mortal Kombat designed to play on the Sega and Nintendo systems found in some 50 million U.S. households...