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...developers all over the world have got their little Project Natal starter kits, and it's up to them to figure out what this stuff is good for. I saw a demo cooked up by Peter Molyneux (Black & White, Fable) in which you chat with a realistic-looking little boy. He recognizes your face and what color your clothes are, and he follows you with his eyes. If you walk over to a pond, you can ripple the water by moving your fingers across it. If you lean over it, you see your reflection. Freaky. "I think...
...remember telling him, ‘Eliot, have some fun. All work and no play makes Eliot a dull boy.’ But I wish he hadn’t listened to me,” he recalled with a laugh...
...freed slaves, and wary Native Americans. Orders were translated into Spanish, French, and Choctaw. The diverse internationalism of such a scene must have particularly piqued the interest of Howe, Harvard graduate and Professor Emeritus of both Oxford and UCLA, who once dreamed of ancient overseas battles as a young boy growing up in Denver. “I got interested in history when I was about six years old and my father sat me on his lap and told me about Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants to fight the Romans,” Howe said...
...information about Jong Un, even among foreign intelligence agencies. Almost nothing was known about him until Fujimoto's book was published in 2003. Fujimoto is also the source for the only known photograph of Jong Un to circulate outside the North, a snapshot the chef took when the boy was about 11. He is the son of Kim Jong Il's third wife - reportedly his favorite - Ko Young Hee, a former dancer who died in 2004 from breast cancer. Ko was born in Japan but moved back to North Korea with her father in the 1960s...
...this trip and any other time he comes to Asia in his new job: this is the region of the world, more than any other, that helped shape Geithner's worldview. His father Peter was a senior executive running Asia programs for the Ford Foundation, and as a boy Geithner lived in India and Thailand. In college he studied both Mandarin and Japanese, and as he told the students this morning, his two summers in Beijing (he came after his junior year as well) helped convince him that "I wanted to work for my government, and help to shape...