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...every corner, as crowds of business executives edge out into traffic and frenzied cabbies bear down on them, determined not to miss the light. Coming from a place where 30-minute, five-mile drives are common-place, I'm continually surprised to see how people will fight tooth and nail over a few inches of street, or run like maniacs to make the 5:58 train instead of the 6:05. When you have so many people in such a small space, your sense of proportion can get warped...
...actually called Memory. One Buckhead mall--Lenox Square--advertises itself on a list with St. Peter's Square, Union Square, Red Square, Trafalgar Square and Times Square; another ("World Class City. World Class Shopping") boasts sweeping staircases and wooden elevators, polished brass and a concierge to direct you to Nail Elite and Hair Artisans, the Civilized Traveller and the Silver Spoon Cafe. It must be said, however, that the same Buckhead hotel that enforces a dress code (jackets are "preferred" for men, even at breakfast) is the place where my $16 Payless shoes were stolen from the corridor...
Science may never be able to pin down the benefits of spirituality. Attempts by Benson and others to do so are like "trying to nail Jell-O to the wall," complains William Jarvis, a public-health professor at California's Loma Linda University and the president of the National Council Against Health Fraud. But it may not be necessary to understand how prayer works to put it to use for patients. "We often know something works before we know why," observes Santa Fe internist Larry Dossey, the author of the 1993 best seller Healing Words...
Doom's charm wasn't its almost non-existent plot line, which involved space marines--or something. The attraction was hunt-and-be-hunted action that put the player behind a shotgun barrel (or a chain saw or a nail gun) in a hellish 3-D world of demons and fireball-spitting ogres...
Quake has a similarly empty script, but by using a radically different "graphics engine," it will deliver mesmerizing 3-D modeling. Doom addict Trent Reznor, of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, has created Quake's heavy-metal sound effects. The enhancements make Quake much more realistic than Doom--and yes, bloodier. (Kids: heads fly off and roll around on the ground! Zombies actually pull chunks of flesh out of their hides and fling them at you, then explode like red water balloons when you shoot them with your nine-inch nail...