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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...
...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 are remembering how much fun the old games are." But they're also finding fun in new ones, like the best-selling Cranium. Launched in 1998, it asks players to act out, draw or sculpt phrases; more than a million copies have been sold. And the tiny, Toronto-based Faby Games saw its Wordthief (a word game played with cards) sell out when it was launched at Barnes & Noble in 2000 and become...
...little plastic sheath on the end of a shoelace. It is connected to a thin cable that snakes its way from the optic nerve exiting the back of Marie's eye and weaves around the outside of her brain to the stimulator implanted in a small cavity in her cranium. The stimulator, which bypasses the damaged rod and cones cells to send electrical signals directly to the optic nerve, is operated by means of radio signals transmitted from the external video camera...
...recall a hardworking student, one who shot his hand up when the teacher scribbled a math problem on the chalkboard, shouting "chaiyo" (victory) when he inevitably got the right answer. He usually finished his homework in a matter of minutes. Still, the star pupil with the outsized cranium?his nickname among his buddies was Fat Head?was no geek. "He was popular with the other boys and not shy at all," says his second-grade teacher Srimoon Kantha. "I remember him flexing his muscles, saying 'I'm going to grow up and be a hero...
...wants to see Li in action. So watch him defeat bad guys with the tools of domesticity: a mop, a bale of laundry and (ouch) an iron. Gasp as he kicks a billiard ball out of an end pocket, then swats it, cricket-bat-style, into a villain's cranium. See him use a desk drawer as a truncheon. He sneaks past a sentry's guardhouse outside the evil inspecteur's police station and, just to show he can, he rams his foot through his guardhouse door, neatly kicking the sentry in the groin. Inside, he chances upon 20 martial...