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...decade, scientists had been searching for dark matter -- the mysterious stuff whose gravity seemed to hold the universe together but which nobody had ever seen. This year they found it -- or at least some of it -- in the form of Jupiter-like clumps of matter known as massive compact halo objects, or MACHOS...
...hard-core gamers, maybe, but if Microsoft wanted to grow its audience, Allard knew the new Xbox had to look kinder and gentler. The goal was a design that was welcoming but not wimpy, that snagged the soccer moms and NASCAR dads and Britney girls--without losing the Halo boys...
...course, war gamers aren't what really occupies Gates. He has them already. (Note to the hard-core faithful: the next version of Halo will not, repeat not, be ready in time for the launch of Xbox 360. It will be part of the all-important second wave next spring. "It's perfect," Gates says, radiant with bloodlust. "The day Sony launches [the new PlayStation], and they walk right into Halo 3." Microsoft is expected to announce that Xbox 360 will play Halo 2 and other Xbox games.) But there's still a significant demographic that for some reason doesn...
...Imagine a human head inside [a] cage fastened by four titanium puns that dig into the skull,” Kumin writes in “Inside the Halo.” Initially, Kumin was rendered a quadriplegic by the accident...
...right side of her body has yet to recover fully. She has enough control of her hand to write her name, but she needs a computer to compose the poems and prose that she still produces so prodigiously. In the last scene of “Inside the Halo,” she triumphantly mounts Deuter for the first time since the accident nine months earlier. “We’re best friends,” she says of Deuter. “I was so grateful that he wasn’t hurt...