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...Last Stand--that are so realistic the U.S. Army is starting to use them for training. GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS As former gang members debate its authenticity on online message boards, politicians and parents' groups condemn the No. 1--selling video game for glorifying street culture. Players can hire prostitutes, and although no sex occurs onscreen, the controller shakes to simulate an orgasm. SHELLSHOCK: NAM '67 A cross between Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now, this brutal game from the makers of Tomb Raider lets characters take drugs and watch a comrade chop up a hooker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Bytes | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...make transfers from miles away. "Last fall, someone came with a load of grain and dropped it in the bin," father Wade says. "The timer for drying was set too short, but from the combine, I was able to change it." Without this system, the farm would have to hire someone to monitor the grain bins, and as Mitchell puts it, "labor is a tight commodity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agent: Farm Of the Future | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...while--but Ariel contains a great deal of pain and sorrow and rage directed at Hughes. He was an exceptionally gifted poet himself--he would later become England's poet laureate--but if you're looking for a selfless, disinterested editor to reshape somebody's work, you do not hire the guy who just broke that person's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: The Way She Wanted It | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Professor [Skip] Gates would hire me,” he jokes, “I would very much appreciate...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Major League | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...report on the dangers of abstinence-only education, the CWA said, “What could be more solidly scientific than telling a child that abstinence is the only method that is 100 percent effective in protecting from pregnancy and specific sexually transmitted diseases? Apparently the ACLU needs to hire stronger fact-checkers before cranking out inaccurate press releases.” Fact-checking lectures from the people who compared Kinsey to a Nazi? I don’t think so. The CWA does have one valid point: Abstinence is indeed the only 100 percent effective method of safe...

Author: By Aviva J. Gilbert, | Title: Sexual Revolution, Part Two | 12/15/2004 | See Source »

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