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After coming into contact with lunar dust from Apollo 12, Frondel was quarantined for two weeks along with the astronauts because of fears that alien organisms might have infected them...
...tall above Tokyo and do the monster mash with a few of your closest buddies, now is the time. Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (Infogrames/Atari; $49.99) has just been released for the Nintendo GameCube, and perfectly preserves the rubber-suited spirit of its 1954 cinematic predecessor. The plot--alien invaders have unleashed the inhabitants of Monster Island upon major urban centers--is dispensed with in a handful of campy cut scenes, taking players straight into a series of titanic dustups between 11 old-school monsters, including no fewer than three versions of the giant reptile himself. Never has a fighting...
...look like a casting reject from Village of the Damned, but Cindy Smart is no creepy alien-girl. Well, she is a little creepy. With two 16-bit microprocessors, voice-recognition software and a digital camera lodged in her chest, she takes interactive playtime to a new level. The doll can do simple math, recognize basic shapes and colors, respond to 70 preprogrammed questions and read flash cards (as long as they're within her vocabulary of 650 English words and a smattering of German, Spanish, Italian and French ones). If all this gets to be too much...
...joys of immersion in a foreign-movie culture like Hong Kong?s is opening a window to an alien world. And one of the tricks is charting this terrain solely on the evidence provided by the films we see - separating the region?s customs from the exaggerations and outright lies in the movies. We can guess that Indian people don?t all sing, the way they do in Bollywood musicals. Hong Kong films (at least the ones that have achieved cult status) suggest that the triads run the town, the cops are all sadists and you can?t walk down...
...democracy. Representative Nick Rahall of West Virginia, who has just returned from Baghdad, says many Iraqis want change--but think the U.S. is the last nation likely to supply it. Geoana broadens the point: "External pressure is not enough," he says, "If you export a product that is alien to a culture, it won't work. People find it difficult to choose between patriotism and freedom...