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Despite the continuing appeal of video and computer games, a growing number of consumers are returning to a low-tech, nostalgic pleasure: board games. From 1999 to 2000, sales jumped 23%, as such games as Monopoly, Clue and Cranium found a new audience in adults and frenzied families eager for a Nintendo-free way to socialize. Toy giant Hasbro has been running an ad campaign that plays on just this theme, urging loved ones to gather weekly for "family game nights...
...popularity of board games has spanned generations, and includes familiar classics and hot newcomers. The best-selling 67-year-old Monopoly can now be played in 34 editions, including I Love Lucy and Spiderman (featuring such properties as Green Goblin, a notorious Spidey foe). A Scooby-Doo edition of Clue was released last month. "Some of the resurgence is post-9/11 and some is part of an overall retro trend," says Maria Weiskott, editor of Playthings magazine. "But particularly during a soft economy, it's important to have something fun and affordable that families can do together. People...
...Muhhamad Saad Iqbal; but Egyptian diplomats have never heard of him. "We have no knowledge of this matter," says Minister Plenipotentiary Reda El-Taify. "We are not aware that Egyptian intelligence was ever in Indonesia or that the Pakistani was wanted in Egypt." So where did Havis go? One clue: the 25-year-old was wanted by the U.S. for a possible connection to the shoe bomber, Richard Reid. Intelligence sources in Jakarta say Havis was bundled onto a CIA Gulfstream G-5 executive jet for an unknown destination. As is its usual practice, the CIA refused to comment about...
...obscure villages in, say, Germany, and it would always knock me out that people there knew my music even though I'd be singing in Japanese," he says. "But if you look at it the other way, I listen to music from Norway and I don't have a clue about what they're singing, either. What I felt was: everywhere is the same...
...stakes were high in 1982, as Crewdson explains. When Gallo made his first appearance, AIDS had just started to hit the western world. At this point, scientists knew how to recognize the disease’s symptoms—they just had no clue what caused patients’ T-cells to wither and their bodies to become susceptible for opportunistic diseases. Homosexuals were the first to experience the leukemia-like symptoms: large lymph nodes, fatigue and weight loss. Then hemophiliacs, unbeknownst to health practitioners at the time, were also succumbing to the virus, infected by the blood transfusions intended...