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Already boyishly trim, Damon lost 40 lbs. to play a heroin-addicted soldier in 1996. He suffered side effects from the crash diet for two years, but the role won him critical goodwill for future gigs...
...government of Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar may have been out of power for seven months, but it's still coming under heavy fire. The latest scandal concerns the May 26, 2003, plane crash that claimed the lives of 62 Spanish soldiers who were returning from peacekeeping duty in Afghanistan when their Ukrainian-registered Yakovlev-42 aircraft went down in the mountains of Turkey. Aznar's government was criticized by the families of the deceased for transporting them in an old plane in such poor condition. Now it turns out that the bodies...
...large research university, even with a faulty-student ratio as low as Harvard’s, will have to tap grad students to teach. But as we have insisted for years, the College can do much more to make TFs better teachers than endowing prizes or offering brief crash courses on grading, which will undoubtedly be easy for grad students to coast through...
Esteemed employee that he is, Hanson hopes to make the game stall, crash or buzz like a bad toaster. And, yes, he wreaks this havoc for a living, working as many as seven days a week in a Chicago-area office the size of a strip mall...
...used to be that video games were tested by their creators and perhaps a few colleagues. Today's titles, however, are far too complicated, requiring a new kind of watchful eye. "Testers are a lot like the crash-test dummies of the industry," says Jason Della Roca, director of the International Game Developers Association, a professional society. First-year testers make about $32,000, while bug hunters with six or more years in the field earn about $53,000, according to Game Developer magazine...