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BORN: March 19, 1942, Clarkfield EDUCATION: St. Olaf College, B.A., 1964; U of Chicago, J.D., 1967 FAMILY: Wife, Karen Aaker; two children RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 364, Montevideo...
...game, he took it to his friend George Lucas, whose own video-game operation turned the idea into a spelunking adventure called The Dig. At Sony Interactive, every movie script that Columbia buys is screened by the video-game department for its game potential. If it looks promising, says Olaf Olafsson, president of Sony Electronic Publishing, a separate scriptwriting team develops the game version. In some cases the movie script is actually changed to add what Sony's creative team calls IPMs -- interactions per minute -- to make for a better game...
...World League is making a token effort to develop international athletes. Each international franchise--Montreal, London, Barcelona and Frankfurt fields 3 non-American players including 2 from the team's country. Players like Frankfurt defensive end Olaf Hampel give the hometown crowd one of their own to cheer...
...sale when it reaches Fort Lauderdale, its final destination. But its creators are hopeful that many of the innovations it incorporates can be offered on smaller boats with less imposing price tags. "In the future you'll see bipod masts and carbon-fiber construction all over," says Olaf Harken, co-founder of Wisconsin's Harken Yacht Equipment, the world's second largest manufacturer of boat hardware, and a driving force behind the Procyon. "The benefits are so substantial." Push-button sailing, anyone...
...class has covered him with paper tags: TENNER on his teeth, EN MUNN on his mouth, EN NESE on his nose and so on. He is a huge, powerfully built youth, amiably playing the gawk for his adoring students. But he is serious as he tells his plans: St. Olaf College in the fall and eventually teaching English and Norwegian in Norway. "I have so much fun with teaching," he says, absently removing HODE from the top of his head. A middle-aged visitor, who remembers when high schoolers in the U.S. "took" language the way you take bad-tasting...