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Comcast needs a bigger pipeline than conventional cable--called broadband in the industry--to handle that load, and Microsoft can help finance it. "By developing a broadband pipe, connecting it to a state-of-the-art chip and supplying the latest version of software, we will enhance both TV and the PC," says Roberts. To follow its own growth trajectory, Microsoft needs broadband to transmit its multimedia cornucopia of online news, entertainment and shopping. MS money now allows Comcast to accelerate construction of fiber-optic cable to expand high-speed Internet access, develop programs with Microsoft and reduce its debt...
...holds up, Skuse's theory might also explain why boys are more likely than girls to develop autism and attention-deficit disorder--conditions that involve difficulties in interacting with others. But until those social genes can be isolated, Skuse's theory remains just a theory...
What's worse, that ship is packed with standard-issue fools, whose function is to react badly to all the movie's fires, floods and explosions. In this melee it's hard to develop characters we can get behind. Sandra Bullock, of course, is back as Annie, but the combination of pluck and vulnerability that made her so winsome in the Ur-Speed is missing here. This time she exists mainly to get tied up and abducted by Willem Dafoe, an actor who can never quite transcend (or enjoy) his inherent weirdness the way Dennis Hopper does. Jason Patric...
...that end, ION has three autonomous design teams working in parallel, each producing a title in one of the classic computer-game genres. Hall's team is creating a role-playing game called Anachronox, while designer Todd Porter and his team develop Doppelganger, a strategy game. Both are due out next year. For now, ION's bread and butter is the 3-D action game Romero's team is building...
BETTER WITH BREAST MILK Breast-fed babies are about half as likely to develop ear infections or diarrhea as those on formula. A mix of both also confers protection, but less...