Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telling his employees that the hard times would last a few months, that they would just ride 'em out. But he let down his guard. "I don't know where the hell this is all going," he said, watching a helicopter touch down at the bigger, still successful operation across the way. "Dickey," he said suddenly, "you need to get out of here. You need to go where there's some action...
...such adventures, in which they visit invented universes whose inhabitants create their own stories by exploring territory, making alliances, seeking treasure and so on. But the Net has advanced the form considerably since the halcyon days of Dungeons & Dragons, the original game played by dateless dweebs in rec rooms across America on Saturday nights. Today's fantasy worlds are designed by software gurus, are presented on the Web and swarm with tens of thousands of players. The result is virtual societies like Ultima Online, which in two years amassed 125,000 players so fervent that pieces of exclusive real estate...
...Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless shelter and job-training center, held its graduation on the same day as Harvard's. But this year director Erik Payne Butler scheduled his ceremony last Thursday on purpose--a reminder, he says, that his graduates should be as celebrated as those folks across the Charles River. And there was an added juxtaposition this year: at Pine Street the keynote speaker was former Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Harvard welcomed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak to alums and graduates. The two men have very different views of the economy. In his memoir...
...communications port and, with the help of Cye's Map-N-Zap software, beams instructions to the robot. Before heading out on an excursion, Cye must be placed on a "home base," an electric pad that doubles as a recharger and orientation point. By dragging your mouse across an onscreen grid--and creating a series of checkpoints at which Cye stops to get his bearings--you chart a route...
...Kosovo ? ahead of schedule, no less ? "I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign." President Clinton assured CNN it was "a very happy day." But on the ground in Kosovo, the early signs are already making the push-button war look like the easy part. Across the province, KLA troops ? in full camouflage and still fully armed despite agreements to the contrary ? are parading in full view of NATO troops and making everybody nervous. In the German-held sector, returning Kosovar Albanians are torching Serb homes. And Serb civilians, for obvious reasons, are ignoring the alliance...