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...video-gaming industry, with $6 billion in annual sales, denies any link between violent games and violent behavior. But it has nonetheless developed a rating system intended to help parents and players gauge violent content. Parents whose last experience with video games might date back to Pac-Man should pay close attention to these ratings. They range from C for young children to A for adult--which indicates extreme violence. The Entertainment Software Rating Board's website, esrb.org contains helpful ratings of many, but not all, video, computer and online games. Before purchasing a game, parents should read...
...just be too annoyed at the reality that he needs McCain, who hasn't rushed to his side, more than McCain needs him. Bush likes to think of himself as Reaganesque, but at the moment it is McCain who looks like the Gipper. Like Reagan, he has formed a PAC so he can keep his own campaign going even while Bush wages his. And like Reagan in 1976, who barely mentioned Gerald Ford, who'd beaten him in the primaries (Jimmy Carter became President), McCain now has reason to slight the guy who wants to rub in who lost...
...PAC-10 powerhouse UCLA showed Harvard's rustiness, sweeping the Crimson in a three-game set in Westwood, Calif. last weekend. During the series, the Bruins (14-10) managed seven home runs off Harvard pitching, including a ninth-inning game-winner by junior right fielder Rob Lyon off senior reliever Derek Lennon in the second game. UCLA also struck out 41 Harvard batters, led by a 16-strikeout performance from junior Rob Henkel, one of the top arms on the West Coast...
...recall, involves donning a head-mounted display or special glasses--or, in principle, contact lenses--and thus entering a computer-generated fantasy world. As you turn your head or walk around, the computer adjusts your perspective accordingly. Tele-immersion is to videoconferencing as virtual reality is to Pac-Man. If it works, it will give you the visual experience of being in the same room with a person who is actually in another city...
...PAC Money. The true engine of the electoral process, funds from political action committees (PAC) are the big bucks that pay for a modern media campaign. Individual contributions, however, are often more interesting. Data from the candidates' mandatory Federal Election Commission filings are on the web, and searchable at www.tray.com/fecinfo. (Try searching for zip code...