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...COASTER CULTURE ? Can't get enough of coasters, or think you can do better than the engineers? Then try Atari's Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (rollercoastertycoon.com), a computer game that lets you simulate your own thrill rides. ? For the true aficionado, Roller Coaster Database (rcdb.com) provides listings, news and statistics on about 1,800 coasters around the world...
...speed of 80 km/h. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES; COASTER CULTURE Can't get enough of coasters, or think you can do better than the engineers? Then try Atari's Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (rollercoastertycoon.com), a computer game that lets you simulate your own thrill rides For the true aficionado, Roller Coaster Database (rcdb.com) provides listings, news and statistics on about 1,800 coasters around the world
...Prado and Picasso’s “Guernica” at the Reina Sofia, my piecemeal experience with Spanish art was disappointing. To exclude modern art, particularly Picasso, from such a prominent, iconic museum is to exclude a pivotal moment in Spanish history. As a history aficionado and modern art connoisseur, I resented the extra walk down Paseo del Prado to find my favorite aspects of Spanish art—cubism, Picasso, and “Guernica”—in a young, growing museum instead of in Spain’s great established museum like...
...roommate, Rosalie T. Thede ’06, is, to say the least, a country music aficionado. She memorizes lyrics, attends concerts, and knows several line dances well enough to teach them. She created a playlist—66 songs long—of her favorite country hits, and convinced me and our six other roommates to entertain the genre. As I listened to the playlist on repeat, I became entranced by the energetic beats and the creative lyrics. Inevitably, I became a country music fan, and now my most played songs in iTunes are titled “Chattahoochie?...
Ellison, who has made a name for himself equally as software doyen and flamboyant aficionado of Italian suits, is the subject of a biography called “The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison.” (The answer, according to its author, Mike Wilson: “God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison...