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...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE Rush hour has arrived. In the first five minutes, 27 trucks leave Mexico and pull into the Customs checkpoint. One by one, the drivers wait to be processed, reading Spanish newspapers and comic books or talking on their CB radios. Eleazar Camancho Luna, 21, listens instead to Latin disco music. He makes five crossings a day--$20 for full loads, $15 for empty trailers that need to be returned--and works six days a week. Not bad for a single guy, he says. The Mexican trucks are serviceable but spare: Luna's lacks the global-positioning systems...
...time for you to think about failure,” he said during a long, comic poem that closed his address. Failure gives people a “sense of mortality,” he added...
...expected soon to enter the global lexicon. Yu-Gi-Oh, which means "King of Games," stars a seemingly normal boy named Yugi who gains extraordinary powers when playing a card game. The boom began when it was introduced as a plot twist in the Yu-Gi-Oh manga-comic series, which then spawned an actual card game, as well as Game Boy and PlayStation software, an animated TV show, action figures, pencil boxes and countless other money-sucking doodads. Yu-Gi-Oh is already a $2 billion industry; it caused a riot at a Tokyo games convention and has been...
Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the comic series, and games producer Konami appear to be following the Pokémon formula to fuel the Yu-Gi-Oh craze. Like Pokémon, the animated TV show brings the characters and plot twists to life. Like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh demands careful strategy to decide which cards to pit against one another. Because you need 40 cards to play the game (players download characters into a Game Boy by inserting the codes printed on real cards), it also plays to kids' penchant for collecting. And though the Game...
...Freddy was a wonderful cartoonist," Biddle says. "He inspired me to begin writing a comic strip for my local newspaper...