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When you think about it, computer games have a pretty twisted tradition. From "Donkey Kong" to "Pac-Man," computer games are based in a state of pseudo-reality that in many ways accounts for the escapist approach students take in adopting them as procrastinatory tools...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Diamonds Are A Video Game Player's Best Friend | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

Perhaps, but Bill Murray, who now runs a conservative, Christian-oriented PAC in Washington, is trying to make it his business. He filed a missing-persons report, and when he became dissatisfied with the Austin police's response, made a short-lived attempt to gain guardianship of his family's estates. Two weeks ago he appealed to Texas Governor George W. Bush to have the Texas Rangers take over the investigation. Murray's letter of request made some remarkable assertions--that someone is still cashing his mother's Social Security and Veterans Administration checks, and that someone is placing charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

Following an impressive performance in the NCAA Tournament against nationally-ranked Vanderbilt, the Crimson had reason to expect success against Arizona, a Pac-10 team which failed to gain an NCAA berth last year...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: W. Basketball Stunned by Arizona, 82-45 | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

From a tangle of 3,000 mostly ma-and-pa firms, three ambulance leaders, all based in the West, have emerged to seize 25% of the national market. American Medical Response has devoured 75 competitors Pac-Man style in four years, and now operates 1,760 ambulances in 28 states. MedTrans, which last year swallowed another giant, CareLine Inc., is just as large and has grown tenfold, into a $500 million operation with 12,000 employees. In fiscal 1995-96, MedTrans, a division of Canada's Laidlaw Inc., an environmental and transportation company, posted a 180% jump in profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMBULANCE CHASING | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Jesse Helms, you're grounded! That's the goal of the North Carolina PAC Mothers Against Jesse in Congress (MAJIC). The group of mostly sixtysomething mothers and grandmothers, which includes conservatives offended by Helms' stand against AIDS research and their gay children, produced a harsh TV ad to chastise him for "distortions, half-truths and intolerance." Not words Helms wants to hear. MAJIC believes he has ensured that most North Carolinians won't hear them either. Of eight stations approached by MAJIC, only three agreed to run the ad. Others begged off on "content" or said they didn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHERS KNOW BEST? | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

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