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...learn by playing. They pick up counting skills from duck-duck-goose and learn strategy from checkers, card games and sports. So when they play violent video games, are they learning to kill and maim? Many parents began asking this question when they learned that the Columbine killers were avid players of Doom--a game that teaches killing skills so effectively that the U.S. military uses a modified version to train its soldiers...
...This year, for example, TV set-top boxes that, for $100 to $200 each, can turn a television set into a computer screen are due to appear in Brazil. Wireless broadband expansion will turn Brazil's ubiquitous cell phones into tiny screens. "Latin Americans have been early and avid adopters of technology," says Antonio Bonchristiano, CEO of the e-commerce company Submarino.com "The key to growth is the cost of a Web device...
After vacationing for years in other parts of Colorado, Carolyn and Warren Phillips came to Montrose four years ago from Lansing, Mich. "It's a great life if you like the outdoors," says Carolyn, an avid skier. "You can play all year round here...
...star of Titanic proportions: LEONARDO DICAPRIO. By signing up to help save the planet, Leo joins a distinguished list of notables who have used their celebrity to draw attention to environmental issues. TV actor TED DANSON founded the American Oceans Campaign, Academy Award winner SUSAN SARANDON is an avid supporter of Mark Plotkin's Amazon Conservation Team, STING throws an annual rain-forest benefit concert in New York City's Carnegie Hall, writer ARUNDHATI ROY has campaigned to stop the building of dams on India's Narmada River, Hong Kong actor CHOW YUN-FAT has done promotional work...
Ulam was also an avid sports fan--a tennis player and Red Sox devotee...