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...Uematsu's music imbues Final Fantasy games with grandeur and depth, much the way John Williams' score helped propel Star Wars into hyperspace. Unlike movie music, Uematsu's supple, heartfelt tunes loop endlessly - until the user moves to a new scene. To stand up to repeated scrutiny, his work is suitably complex (he uses drums, oboes, strings and synthesizers), but the melodic core is strong (he has released solo piano versions of some songs). He doesn't find his field limiting: "If I had been composing only popular music in Japan, I would not have had the opportunity to hear...
...head of a government that's balanced on a knife-edge, and as a president who has nothing like a mandate, George Bush should have been wooing and blowing kisses to Jim Jeffords, not keeping him out of the loop and the White House. The administration was wrong: the Republican party needed Jim Jeffords more than Jim Jeffords needed the party...
...minute time penalty. This format provides an enormous incentive to shoot well, but does not really give the same mental boost as the penalty lap format used during the second race. In the penalty lap format, there is no time penalty, but you must ski an extra 150-meter loop for every shot missed. Since I am a better shooter than skier, the shooting range becomes my only place of potential glory in this kind of race. I hit all five targets during my first prone shooting bout during the race, and get the thrill of skiing past the penalty...
...Still, we seem to love the lion's den experience, the Silicon Valley press corps. There we were again on Tuesday, crammed into the auditorium of Infinite Loop building 4 on Apple's Cupertino campus for the launch of the new and improved iBook. Who else but Jobs could attract a standing-room-only theaterful of journos for something so mundane as a laptop show-and-tell, we mused afterwards? To be fair, most of us were there as a result of that classic Apple tactic: don't show or tell until the very last possible moment...
This summer a new outfit called MedUnite will try to close the loop. Formed by large insurers, including Aetna, Cigna and Oxford, that didn't like the idea of WebMD coming between them and their core customers, MedUnite will try to offer intelligent connectivity to doctors and HMOs in order to speed claims, referrals and eligibility checks--and to cut costs. "Who better to work out the relationship with HMOs than the HMOs themselves?" asks Dave Cox, MedUnite...