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...physics, is merely a means to the end of scaring the bejesus out of players. Easily the most terrifying creature is the Stalker, a War of the Worlds - style giant with 50-ft. legs and the ability to suck in reality itself and exhale it in an earsplitting sonic boom. You would be well advised to start running in the opposite direction...
Think online grocers are forgotten relics from the dotcom boom days? Not so. Webvan, the e-grocery pioneer that was supposed to revolutionize the way people shop, is dead and gone, but the idea behind it lives on. According to Jupiter Research, consumers this year will buy more than $2 billion worth of groceries online--more than three times what they spent in Webvan's heyday back...
...heels of deep job cuts last year. A decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push to be a global economic player. To exploit the late-'90s boom in worldwide regional-jet travel, Botelho committed Embraer to lighter, faster, farther-ranging and less expensive jets, which proved attractive to airlines even though they weren't - and still aren't - considered as technologically advanced as Bombardier's. Says Doug Abbey, executive director of the Regional Air Service Initiative, an industry advocacy...
...young man, Reginald Grant, 47, excelled in traditionally male, high-earning fields. A former Marine and defensive back for the New York Jets, he segued smoothly into subsequent careers in financial planning and software sales. During the tech boom, Grant co-founded two sports-related Internet-based companies. "I was a shark," he says. "You eat what you kill." But after the tech bubble vaporized, he found himself staring at a billboard advertising a teaching fellowship in Los Angeles. A year later, he's teaching honors English to eighth-graders in the tough Watts neighborhood. He makes...
Sociologists say the rise of an educated black middle class, the Sunbelt migration boom, "reverse migration" by blacks from the North and the fact that the U.S. military--most of whose bases are in the South--has become one of the country's most integrated institutions have increased opportunities for blacks and whites to interact as equals and develop romantic relationships. These factors combined to help join the Edgeworths. Yvette, 35, a claims auditor at the Social Security Administration in Birmingham, grew up on air bases in California and Germany before her family moved to Maxwell Air Force Base...