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...beginning I created the heavens and the earth -- well, almost. I actually started with a lump of molten rock, gave it a hundred million years or so to cool off and then began to form the clear blue oceans and the landmasses that would eventually become continents. After a few billion years had gone by (it seemed like minutes to me), I created the first life-forms and triggered the start of their long evolution. Before I knew it, my world was filled with thousands of self-replicating molecules, millions of one-celled organisms, whole armies of invertebrates, crustaceans...
Start with a lump of rock, add some flora and fauna and before you know it, your little planet's growing out of control. With a program called SimEarth, the whole world's in your hands...
...soon found myself stranded on a deserted road with a sunken car, a lump in my throat and a torn tire. My humiliation only deepened when I had to explain the whole incident to the mechanic at the gas station I had so cockily passed only minutes before...
Only it isn't the newcomers who are suffering most. Hundreds of low-salaried Israelis, many of them young army veterans, have been turned out of their homes in favor of newcomers who are given a lump-sum payment of $11,000 for rent and other expenses. Landlords, realizing new immigrants have the cash, double and triple prices and require a full year's payment in advance. Poor Israeli families can not compete. "The landlords prefer the Soviet immigrants," says Yossi Hurja, 27, who was forced to move when his rent was raised from $350 to $420 a month...
...Harvard Film Archive is in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, on Quincy Street. The Carpenter Center is a semi-spiral lump of concrete, and is one of the few North American examples of work by the renowned architect Le Corbusier. It's ugly, but people will still think you're uncultured if you criticize it, simply because it's famous...