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Hold on to your joysticks, everyone. Video-game nostalgia has arrived. Never mind that the genre is less than two decades old. The first coin- operated video game -- a rather drab, black-and-white job called Computer Space -- was introduced in 1971, to a notably tepid reception. Since then, arcades have seen a parade of breakthrough hits, technological advances, a boom period and then a falloff in popularity. Enough has happened, in short, for the American Museum of the Moving Image to assemble a collection of nearly 50 classic video games and call it historical scholarship. The exhibit, Hot Circuits...
...that end, the Zimbabwe government is sending ten of its threatened rhinos to south Texas ranches this summer. The program is supervised by the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, but the bill is being footed by Game Coin, a group of hunters. Rescuing rhinos costs big money: Game Coin has already invested $300,000 in the rhinos at Bentsen's ranch, and will spend more than that to capture and transport the Zimbabwe rhinos...
This statement seems to capture both sides of the 'good Harvard-bad Harvard' coin. Most students find that friends, or extracurriculars, or being sociable, or living on their own constituted their best education. The flip side is inevitably Harvard's failure to educate--due to its large classes, distant faculty and ill-conceived Core curriculum...
...King of Memphis, who put the first few machines on beaches last August. This year he expects to distribute 500 of the devices along beaches and at swimming pools. "The sunscreen industry is on the cusp of a major boom," he predicts. If so, sunbathers will need bikinis with coin pockets in them...
Harvard is undefeated since losing to Southern Connecticut, and currently has a 15-game unbeaten streak. The only blemish on the Crimson's record this spring is a 6-6 tie with Dartmouth (which the Crimson won on a coin flip) in the semifinal round of the N.E. Invitational...