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...first free computer game I fell for was solitaire. I remember that period only dimly. Young children (mine?) squalling in the backround, a wife (mine?) sobbing that this had gone on long enough, and me in my boxers, unshaven and attached like a human peripheral to the PC, playing hand after just-one-more-hand-please of that endless game. To this day, the computer-generated sound of a riffling card deck produces in me the kind of facial tics and palpitations that must be sadly familiar to cult deprogrammers, substance-abuse counselors and others in the desperate-cases business...
...Popcap's Tetris-like Diamondmine is the No. 1 game at MSN's GameZone (where it's called Bejeweled). When I visited there last Friday morning, 9,032 people were playing it. Bejeweled was too soft for my taste--I was still dimly aware of my kids in the backround. But when I showed them the game, it shut them right...
...program from 1986 to 1990: "At some point, I realized that the private sector was going to have to come into play." So Hoffman jumped the fence and in 1991 founded Child Support Enforcement; today his firm employs eight full-time investigators on some 3,000 cases. Hoffman's backround as a high public official is unusual; the business runs more to seasoned debt collectors such as Find Dad's Mel Shaw, who will say, straight-faced, of a projected quarry, "I' m his worst nightmare. I'll be on him like a new coat of paint." They employ standard...
...Minutes segment was taped in Boston in a suite at the Ritz Carlton late Sunday morning, with a fire roaring the backround. Dressed conservatively as they sat on a small sofa, the Clintons were calm and collected. They held hands intermittently. At one point Hillary Clinton gently rubbed her husband's back, but there was none of the fawning gaze Nancy Reagan affected every time her husband performed...
...country is quite segregated economically means that early applicants tend to come from a more affluent socio-economic backround," Fitzsimmons says...