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...that foster fires. The fires pour carbon dioxide into the air, which promotes global warming and makes the forests dryer still. A computer simulation of the effect of climate change in Mexico has predicted that if temperatures rise as feared, rainfall might be reduced 40%--a drop that would doom the remaining rain forests in the state of Chiapas...
John Romero, creator of Doom and Quake computer games: "The creature in Aliens. There's just so much mystery: Does it rule its home planet, or is it a cockroach in the evolutionary chain of an ancient, superdeveloped world? The sheer terror this monster can cause is overwhelmingly savage...
...religious, apocalyptic tradition. Just about any recent event, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is taken by some as a sign of the impending Doomsday or the flowering of the Peaceable Kingdom. Countless secular predictions also sway between doom and hope. Socialist Utopias are out of fashion, but belief in free-market cornucopias is rivaled by nightmares of savage Blade Runner cities...
...Alan K. Simpson, a life-long friend, director of the IOP and U.S. Senator of Wyoming from 1978 to 1996; Charles R. Nesson '60, Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; and "Acid Phreak," a former member of a group of Internet hackers known as the "Legion of Doom...
...explosion of "Goldeneye," the Nintendo game which has everybody from C.S. to the A.D. staying in on the weekend just to blow away the bad guys. Stepping into James' squeaky-clean shoes and kicking some evil arss is a classy way to spend an evening. Unlike its futuristic precursor "Doom," "Goldeneye" includes a final level in which James graphically seduces a Russian double agent. Haven't gotten there? Keep playing...