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The sleekest new pools are designed to look like they go on forever, blending into the horizon. Their so-called vanishing edges create an optical illusion, making it seem as if the water flows far beyond the pool's walls. Diving boards? Forget it. They ruin the effect

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Cool In the Pool ... ... And Hot On the Deck | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

As radical as it was 11 years ago, Doom looks pathetically crude compared with Carmack's new brainchild. A first glance at a computer screen running Doom 3 is confusing to the eye: the illusion the game creates is so realistic. The secret? Light. Carmack has spent the past four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games: The Age of Doom | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

The downside? These plans offer the illusion that shopping equals thrift. "You're never going to spend your way into savings," says Gail Hillebrand, a senior attorney at Consumers Union in San Francisco. "You need a significant savings plan for your family, and this is not it." The amounts of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Spend a Little Here, Save a Little There | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

The power failure that crippled much of Greece for four hours last Monday is only the latest indication that the Athens Olympics may be almost as challenging for visitors as it is for athletes. But there are other, subtler omens as well. Take the new 8,000-seat boxing venue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Made-for-TV Olympics | 7/18/2004 | See Source »

Strange as it is, only when I’m staying somewhere for a while, working and relaxing and living there, and not merely passing through, do I feel any sense of movement. It’s the natural movement of the place you’re in, the city...

Author: By Alexander L. Pasternack, | Title: London Lanes | 6/25/2004 | See Source »

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