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...better or worse, video games mold minds. The US Army has recently acknowledged this fact by producing what may be the first-ever piece of interactive propaganda: the game America’s Army, which they use as a recruiting device. But this is not really very surprising at all, and one can hardly blame the Army for the direction that video games have taken. Like the movie industry, what many people seem to prize most in video games is what only large corporate bureaucracies at the cutting edge of graphics and special effects innovation can provide. Unlike the movie...

Author: By Jorian P. Schutz, | Title: You Are What You Play | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...seems to fit right into the mold of a stay-at-home sci-fi fan who is completely happy communicating solely with his or her computer­—my former roommate's worst nightmare. And yes, this nondrinker has a favorite online comic...

Author: By Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOT THE ONLY WAY | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

Boyle chronicled other resistance fighters who did not quite fit the mold projected by the media. One such character, whom she called “The Syrian,” was a Shiite and not a Sunni, the sect that comprises Saddam’s Baathist party...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Photojournalists Discuss Iraqi Resistance | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

...repaired; and the highly important solitary skull appeared to have had pieces rubbed, scratched and broken off it. It's now alleged that the damage was most likely caused by someone making a cast with a special substance that is painted or sprayed on and hardens into a rubbery mold. Equally infuriating to scientists is the possibility that the supposed illicit casting may have altered the skull so no exact record of it can now be made. "It's simply outrageous," says Peter Brown, the palaeontologist attached to the Morwood team. "It's commercial and intellectual property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Bones, Big Feud | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...average-size guy, bushy mustache, "psychotic" eyes--led to nothing at first. And BTK was cocky enough to think he could get away with it. Run-of-the-mill criminals don't become pen pals with the press and the police. But BTK became a murderer-correspondent in the mold of Jack the Ripper and California's Zodiac Killer, who was still at large when BTK started his spree. In 1978, apparently frustrated by a lack of media attention, BTK wrote to a local TV station, asking, "How many do I have to kill before I get my name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was the Killer Next Door? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

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