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...NetEase, the sector's most striking turnaround, has been especially aggressive in tapping what many consider the Internet's true killer app: massive, real-time, multiplayer online games. In August, NetEase began charging for Westward Journey II and Priston Tale, both of which have huge followings in China. Though he won't provide exact figures, acting NetEase CEO Ted Sun says "a substantial proportion" of the company's $7.3 million in third-quarter nonadvertising revenues came from games. (Just last week Sina followed suit by inking a deal with NCsoft, a major Korean game company...
...August 2002, Goelman flew to Los Angeles and donned his tuxedo for the Writers of the Future award ceremony. “Having Sean Ashton—he played Sam in The Lord of the Rings—ask for your autograph was very entertaining,” he says. And though the awards ceremony took place in the Scientology building, Goelman claims that “L. Ron Hubbard’s award is quite separate from Scientology...
...years since the end of the Gulf War, especially the four years since Iraq expelled the previous group of U.N. weapons inspectors, prove that Hussein would never risk his life or his power in order to strike the U.S. or its allies. Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) argued in August that “containment of Saddam is working… He would not, in my judgment, initiate an attack with a weapon of mass destruction because it would lead to his own destruction… He’s a survivalist, not a suicide bomber...
...many times have witnessed her show a crumpled library card, a decade old, to the M2 bus drivers who tended to admit her before her bags became so numerous. As she accumulated possessions over the summer, the passengers and drivers became less willing to assist her, and by August I rode bus after bus that passed her by as she stood waiting on the side of the road. I therefore have observed firsthand her sad deterioration over the past months, and it is clear to me that this person suffers from a psychological disorder that has gripped her life...
...gear on civilian planes. It's a problem the Pentagon has been grappling with for some time: Three years ago, the Defense Department told Congress the biggest threat to its cargo planes were shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles like the ones fired in Mombassa. Three months ago, on August 27, the Pentagon awarded a $23 million contract to outfit four Air Force C-17 cargo planes with sophisticated equipment to protect them from Stingers, SA-7s and other portable missiles favored by terrorists. "That's more than $5 million per plane," an Air Force officer said this week. "Once...