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Norrath, for the uninitiated, is EverQuest's answer to Middle Earth. Players all over the world--each hunched over his or her computer screen--gather on the same 3-D map, connected via the Internet. At last count, the land of EverQuest had 433,445 inhabitants, with 12,000 new immigrants arriving every month. Its subscription fees have made the game a gold mine for its owner, Sony, and helped put a relatively obscure genre--the massively multiplayer game--on the map. This week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, a select few VIPs will get an early...
Women stop to ask directions. Men study the map. And those gender tendencies apply to personal finance as well as to road trips. According to the MONEY Magazine/OppenheimerFunds Women and Investing survey, released last week, about a quarter of men get most of their advice from financial advisers--the same amount who seek guidance mainly from magazines, newspapers and newsletters...
Helder's views may explain his placid demeanor when he was taken into custody on charges that could land him in prison for life. He told FBI agents the bombings were meant to draw an enormous smiley face across the map of the U.S. The first clusters of bombs in Illinois and Iowa and the second cluster in Nebraska (which were not set to explode) made up the eyes; the mouth was to run from Colorado through Texas and beyond. Helder dropped the project, he said, because he was gripped by a sudden urge to see the Pacific Ocean...
...After 13 years of such violent tides, Kashmir's children are all over the map?some literally, others in the myriad ways they view their home and the possible futures it holds for them. Moulvi Imran Mushtaq decided to stay. He was ambitious, with dreams of becoming a doctor, and worked hard to win admission to Srinagar's Government Medical College. Violence, however, shut down his school for long periods; Moulvi's four and a half year curriculum took seven years to complete. "It was full of risk sending him to college," says his father Moulvi Mushtaq Ahmed. Avoiding...
...round of diplomatic struggle. Israeli officials tell TIME that Sharon, hoping to pre-empt U.S. and Saudi initiatives, will make a new concession on Palestinian statehood, conditioned on "serious, concrete and continued steps against terrorism" by Arafat. Israeli officials say the concession will involve a new map for a potential Palestinian state. U.S. officials say they won't know the details until they meet Sharon face to face, but they expect much. Says a senior U.S. official close to the talks: "He's got to be willing to say that the [Palestinian] state will come in a reasonable time frame...