Word: huges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buzz about the new game - which will be known as American McGee's Alice, after the game's creator - is huge, and that's exactly what Electronic Arts hoped for. The announcement was preceded by 13 weeks of more or less cryptic hints - music boxes, the sound of children laughing, portentous poems. Even now, little hard information has been released. The game's official site carries an image of a Cheshire Cat with an earring, a skeletal neck, and a more sinister smile than Carroll probably originally envisioned. It also features scraps of verse along fairly predictable lines...
...potholes extend psychically too, of course: almost every Cambodian you talk to has huge gaps in his life story, long silences. Since Pol Pot eliminated all those with education or knowledge of the outside world, Phnom Penh became a city of country people, as well as a city of orphans, and you still cannot find doctors or teachers or lawyers of a certain age. No one knows what his neighbors suffered, or how exactly they survived. To survive today, school-age girls still sell themselves for $2 a visit--ignoring what may be the fastest-rising AIDS-infection rate...
Amid all the dilapidation, there are gaudy, anomalous explosions of affluence--huge, multistory palaces offering KARAOKE MASSAGE in neon letters, and ads in the local paper for Harry Winston jewels. Much of the money comes, of course, from overseas investors who are eager to make a killing out of need and are gambling that the economy can only improve. "This is the first time since I came here in 1992 when I can feel truly confident of making a profit," says a Singaporean businessman sipping pumpkin soup with gold leaf in it (in a hotel where even the telephone receivers...
...pollack harvest may be huge, but that doesn't mean the fish is still abundant everywhere. If commercial fishermen overfish a spot near nursing sea lions, both mothers and pups can starve. That's why the Trustees for Alaska, a public interest law firm, has sued the U.S. government for failing to protect areas vital to endangered marine mammals. The group's litigation director, Peter Van Tuyn, points out that in southeast Alaskan waters, where there is little industrial fishing of pollack, the sea lion population has held up relatively well. And fur seals in the Pribilofs have done better...
...naval battle groups into the area to signal its readiness to come to Taiwan?s aid. "It?s humiliating for the Chinese when they?re forced to back down in the face of U.S. military power," says Dowell. "They?re very aware of the need to avoid making huge threats from which they later have to back down." In the future, though, don't expect Beijing to cease from periodically testing U.S. resolve to get involved in the 50-year-old conflict across the Taiwan Strait...