Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about a subgroup that finds schoolyard massacres an acceptable cost for its right to be armed to the teeth. But if the Constitution speaks of a "well-regulated militia," why don't we regulate it? Surely the sanest teenager isn't militia material. Gun ownership should not start until age 21, and it should require a background check at every purchase point, and a waiting period. Just as no one has a right to a machine gun, no one should have a right to a semiautomatic weapon, or a gun that can be altered to become one. Of course guns...
REAL-TIME STRATEGY Even though the battles are bloody, kids learn fast with games like AGE OF EMPIRES and STARCRAFT because looking ahead, plotting strategy and husbanding resources are the only ways to win these real-time wars. Age of Empires, which pits players against Hittites, Greeks and Romans, might even teach the kids a little history...
...Age of Empires: Educational value, 4; Violence...
...Combat 2. I find it relaxing, almost meditative. I love fighting games, such as the Samurai-slashing Bushido Blade or the kung fu-ish Tekken 2. They work out my twitchy reflexes. I've become lost for days on end in strategic battle simulations, like Age of Empires, a game that lets you play God and create legions of workers and armies--and then lay waste to rival civilizations. And I was obsessed, like millions of other gamers, with the notorious "first-person shooter" called Doom as well as its progeny, Quake. I figured, where's the harm...
Most formidable is Li's. In an interview weeks before the Beijing demonstration, he explained to TIME that he began studying Qi Gong at age 4 with masters "in the mountains," probably in Manchuria. In 1992 he went public with an amalgam of Qi Gong, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism aimed at moral rejuvenation and a spiritual "cultivation," culminating in supernatural powers and "freedom from the worldly state." (Asked if he is a human being from earth, Li replied, "I don't wish to talk about myself at a higher level. People wouldn't understand it.") His regimen, promoted through books...