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...summon his inner boy. "For me, it's more of an effort getting out of the place where I think like a child," he says. Financial maturity has its upside too: more pocket money to blow on robots, other toys and old woodworking tools on eBay. Not to mention the freedom to create more fantasy worlds. After all, what's the fun in growing up if you can't play with your toys whenever you want...
...Special mention must be given to There, a 3-D online world designed primarily for and by women. An enormous, fun-filled virtual chat room (rather than a game) with realistic environments and cool-looking characters controlled by real people, There (at there.com costs $10 a month and can be addictive. Unfortunately, you need a fairly high-powered PC to join in. But as with most everything unveiled at CES, you have to award it an A for effort...
...volumes about South Korea’s education system, which can’t seem to teach the lessons of the Korean War and its aftermath: millions of Koreans killed in combat, millions more dead in the North from unnecessary famine and inhuman conditions in concentration camps, not to mention the Cold War litany of bombings, assassinations, and infiltrations against South Korean targets. An attitude of solidarity with their fellow Koreans imprisoned in the North is understandable, even praiseworthy, but real sympathy should inspire an even deeper loathing of the government that is responsible for every additional second the peninsula...
Acting--that must be fun. You get your chance to inhabit a wide range of humanity, from serial killers to detectives who track serial killers. You get your name above the title and your face in Mount Rushmore dimensions on movie screens and billboards. Not to mention the cool accessories: the babes or boy toys, the avid attention the press pays to your every fistfight and drug bust. Acting: it's movie-world glamour...
...simply put, our long-term strategy is to be where we're not." Wal-Mart is now the leading retailer in Mexico. The company recently landed in Japan, buying 34% of Seiyu, a leading retailer there, adding market No. 10. That leaves most of Europe, not to mention large parts of Asia and South America. Wal-Mart made a dream debut in the U.K. with the $10.7 billion acquisition of ASDA in mid-1999, where it discovered a company almost perfectly in tune with its Every Day Low Price (EDLP) culture. But expansion in Germany has been less than stellar...