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...people like Will Wright, creator of the Sims (and now the Sims 2) and Peter Molyneux (Populous, Black and White, The Movies). (See reviews.) There were also a couple of games which hewed to tradition, but stood out by being by far the most breathtakingly, painstakingly real: Doom III and Half Life 2. And the normally turgid genre of movie tie-ins is showing a lot of promise. Instead of following the plot of the movie, Enter the Matrix wraps its own plot around it. Quidditch World Cup takes an aspect of the Harry Potter movies and turns it into...
...less instead of $26, and gasoline would go for less than $1 a gal.) Iraq's importance in filling this role was spelled out two years ago in a little-noted energy study issued by the Council on Foreign Relations and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University, named for the Secretary of State under President Bush's father. The report offered this snapshot: "Tight [oil] markets have increased U.S. and global vulnerability to disruption and provided adversaries undue potential influence over the price of oil. Iraq has become a key 'swing' producer, posing...
...Appointed. L. Paul Bremer III, 61, veteran U.S. diplomat and State Department counter-terrorism expert; as the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq; in Washington, D.C. Bremer, who will try to cobble together a new government for Iraq, outranks Jay Garner, the Pentagon-appointed administrator. Announcing his appointment, President George W. Bush described Bremer as a "can-do" person...
John H. Marburger III, who also spoke at the MIT conference last Friday, says he thinks a strict boundary between classified and non-classified research is reasonable in the physical sciences but more dangerous for research on biological subjects because of biotechnology’s potential applications toward both helpful and deleterious ends...
...joke that mutated into a hundred variations on the Web, a guest leans over at a White House dinner and asks Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair what they are discussing. "World War III," Blair replies. "We're going to kill 14 million Arabs and one dentist." When the perplexed guest asks why a dentist should be killed, Bush slaps Blair on the back and says, "What did I tell you? Nobody is going to care about the 14 million Arabs...