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Welcome to the brutal world of Quake, this season's hottest new computer game. Created by id Software, the maestros of carnage who created the phenomenally popular shoot-'em-ups Doom and Doom II, Quake was released late last month and quickly shot to the top of the game charts. More intriguing, though, was last month's roll-out of Quake World, Quake's "networked" cousin, which can bring together in simultaneous mortal combat as many as eight players--players who may be sitting, like Grrrl, in adjoining cubicles, or on opposite sides of the world. The game stands...
Sixty years ago, no one needed hope; the screens teemed with movies about women. Strong women, saintly or desperate ones, but always smart. Greta Garbo drove men to their doom; Barbara Stanwyck did the same and went along for the ride. Carole Lombard traded quips and punches with her co-stars. Rosalind Russell ran giant corporations from her perch as executive secretary to some very soft plutocrats. Katharine Hepburn, a cool goddess, came to earth to cuddle with Spencer Tracy. Bette Davis strutted her sensationally neurotic hauteur. Joan Crawford played the unapologetic gold digger, which is how she leveled half...
...this occasion he simply rolled up his sleeves and set to work, fingers clacking out a flamenco on the keyboard, looking for the cause of the glitch. What he uncovered sent a chill down his spine--and has rippled across the Net ever since, like a rumor of doom. Someone, or something, was sending at the rate of 210 a second the one kind of message his computer was obliged to answer. As long as the siege continued--and it went on for weeks--Rosen had to work day and night to keep from being overwhelmed by a cascade...
Coming out of the first half and down 5-1, Harvard knew that it had to come out fast. After scoring the first two goals of the half, Harvard was looking sharp. Then in a matter of seconds, an unfortunate sequence spelled certain doom and epitomized the entire game...
...drugs have also drastically altered the outlook for panic disorder, a chronic illness characterized by recurrent panic attacks and a lifetime of fear in between. The symptoms of an attack--among them palpitations, breathlessness, sweating, dizziness, tingling sensations, hot flashes or chills, as well as a sense of impending doom--seem so dire and life-threatening that patients frequently turn up in emergency rooms convinced they are having a heart attack or going insane. Thirty percent of the 2.4 million Americans with panic disorder go on to develop agoraphobia, the fear of leaving home lest they succumb to panic...