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...example, its new Geko 201 ($150) invites users to traverse a virtual maze to capture a series of imaginary flags. To play, stand in any field or parking lot (you need at least 360 sq. ft. to maneuver) and look down at the screen to see where the nearest flag is located. Then walk or run toward it. An onscreen arrow updates your location and tells you when you've reached the flag. You can play alone or with friends, but make sure you look up every now and then, so you don't run into a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Having Fun With GPS | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...yard is evicted] the stuff that comes into the port will have to be trucked out to Worcester [the next nearest rail yard], which causes its own traffic and pollution problems...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: State Environmental Office To Review Allston Purchase | 4/22/2003 | See Source »

...Looking around for an escape route, I noticed a second pile of artillery shells, 300 feet off to my left. I also spotted another, a smaller cluster - mostly mortar shells. The nearest cover was the walled compound of a domed church, along a narrow alleyway some 60 feet behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unquiet Peace | 4/16/2003 | See Source »

...horrors begin shortly after Janet and Brad marry and drive off from their home in Denton, Ohio. When their tire blows out, they trudge through the rain to the nearest shelter—a castle owned by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite hosting a convention of aliens from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy Transylvania. Tormented and propositioned, the newlyweds are chased by Frank-N-Furter’s creation named Rocky Horror...

Author: By A. SCOTT Holbrook and D. J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Midnight Horrors on Church Street | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

...Arizona, went up in flames, soon blackened by huge funnels of clouds shooting skyward. The West Virginia and the California started to explode in a chain reaction. I soon heard the rat-tat-tat of machine guns and squads of planes starting to dive-bomb the destroyers and cruisers nearest shore. I saw a large plane fly low over the water from the direction of Honolulu into battleship row and drop a torpedo toward the middle of the ships. The plane then turned toward Aiea, my hometown, hugging the surface of the water to avoid antiaircraft fire. As the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dec. 7, 1941 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

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