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...addition to inserting ads, gamemakers are experimenting with other novel ways of drawing revenue from multiplayer online gaming. "Pizza was just the first step," says Chris Kramer, spokesman for Sony Online Entertainment. "The next step is letting people buy music, clothes and DVDs within our games." Sony's game consumers, mostly 18-to-35-year-old males, will soon be able to charge such purchases to the same credit cards Sony has on file for their game subscriptions, Kramer says...
Whatever else the internet has done for or to the English language, it has popularized a very useful phrase that I will now invoke: spoiler alert. If you want to get the full effect of Kazuo Ishiguro's chilling, intensely moving novel Never Let Me Go (Knopf; 288 pages), read no further than the end of this paragraph. Never Let Me Go is the story of three people--Kathy, Tommy and Ruth--who at first appear to be ordinary children attending an exclusive and indefinably creepy but otherwise ordinary English boarding school. The only other thing you need to know...
...that's so, should parents of shy children nudge them to be less withdrawn? Some studies suggest that there are real, even lifesaving reasons to try. Bowdoin's Putnam has found that the children in his soap-bubble studies who resist novel situations tend to internalize feelings, which suggests that they are more prone to develop depression and anxiety later in life. Shy children are also at greater risk for developing full-blown social phobia, a serious disorder that afflicted half of Schwartz and Kagan's shy subjects. In addition, a 2003 study of HIV-positive men at UCLA showed...
AWARDED. HA JIN, 49, Chinese-American novelist; the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, given to the best novel or short story by an American author, for War Trash, the tale of a Chinese soldier captured by Americans during the Korean War; in Washington, D.C. Ha Jin previously won the award for his 2000 novel Waiting, and becomes only the third writer after Philip Roth and John Edgar Wideman to win the prize twice in its 25-year history...
Everything Is Illuminated. The Manchurian Candidate star Liev Schreiber is running the whole campaign for this summer's big-screen adaptation, starring Elijah Wood, of the Ukraine-set Jonathan Safran Foer novel...