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...first draft of this article was due two days ago. I initially accepted the responsibility of assembling this parting shot a month ago. That month was quickly overtaken with Halo 2, lackluster action flicks, seasonal brews, and the occasional, half-assed academic pursuit. After ignoring several polite e-mails warning against the impending deadline, I decided to finally just sit down and write the damn thing. Open a “Document1.” Hmm. Did I even learn anything in college? Did I have an emblematic experience that shaped me? Alt-tab to Pine. Pressing...
Food-marketing expert Balzer says yogurt's appeal is its convenience. "Yogurt has this wonderful halo of health, but the ease is what drives the category. In the mid-'80s, pizza was the food of the day. Today it's yogurt," he says. "Clearly it's a structural change in the way we're eating." Yoplait's goal, says Waldron, is to get yogurt into more meals and snacks during the day, on more days of the week...
...forgotten: to nongamers, video games are really hard. Like hard as in homework. The standard video-game controller is a kind of Siamese-twin affair, two joysticks fused together and studded with buttons, two triggers and a four-way toggle switch called a d-pad. In a game like Halo, players have to manipulate both joysticks simultaneously while working both triggers and pounding half a dozen buttons at the same time. The learning curve is steep...
...Illinois Democrat rode into town with a halo and has worked hard ever since to prove he's a mere mortal. Obama, 44, has focused on important but low-profile issues, such as making sure the U.S. is prepared for an outbreak of avian flu and securing nuclear-weapon stockpiles in the former Soviet Union. He has reached so often across the aisle on, say, controlling Katrina spending, that some Democrats complain he won't be their firebrand...
...Mature-Rated Video Games,” looked at a random sample taken from all M-rated games available for Xbox, Game Cube and Playstation 2. The two top-selling games of 2004 were “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and “Halo 2,” both rated “M,” according to the NPD Group, a market research firm. “We found that [these] video games were correctly labeled with the violence and blood content,” said Thompson. “However...