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...screen you're toast. But there's something about the formula that sets a hook deep in our psyche; players have even reported seeing the falling blocks in their sleep. "I believe there is some basic psychological pleasure sensor that Tetris has found that other [games]don't," said Henk Rogers, the Dutch video-game designer who secured the console and handheld licensing rights for Nintendo in 1989, in a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. "The balance is so good, it feels like you can always go a little more...
...family started the Butch Kerzner memorial bursary fund for underprivileged gifted children to study in the hospitality industry. This will fund up to 10 children's studies next year. Beside all this is the example Kerzner has set for others to grow our industry. Henk Bredenoord, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...
...golf course where you can't help but shoot sub-par. Bones abound: even the untrained eye can spot them protruding from the gray limestone outcrops. In an area of 40 sq. km, Archer's teams have found and named hundreds of sites since 1976, when he and palaeontologist Henk Godthelp decided to check out reports that Riversleigh - then a cattle station, now part of Lawn Hill National Park - might contain valuable fossils. And it did - in the same way that the Louvre could be said to house some nice paintings. Riversleigh has since provided an annual bounty of exquisitely...
...inheritance and adoption. Civil Marriage In April 2001, the Netherlands became the first to offer full civil marriage rights to gay couples. It imposed a three-year moratorium on adoptions, but recently dropped it, along with a ban on foreign adoptions, according to gay-rights activist Henk Krol. In January 2003, Belgium adopted a similar model, but without the adoption rights...
...couples rights equivalent to married couples in all matters but the right to adopt, or to receive artificial insemination. The famously tolerant Dutch surpassed the Scandinavians in April 2001 by jettisoning all distinctions between gay partnerships and traditional marriages. "In the Netherlands, we don't have gay marriage," says Henk Krol, an activist who was knighted by Queen Beatrix for his advocacy of gay rights. "We only have one marriage, civil, open to any couple." Opinion polls attest to a growing acceptance of gay marriage - one recent poll (commissioned by Elle) in France found 64% of those questioned favored...