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...most gamers have long ago forgotten: to nongamers, video games are really hard. Like hard as in homework. The standard video-game controller is a kind of Siamese-twin affair, two joysticks fused together and studded with buttons, two triggers and a four-way toggle switch called a d-pad. In a game like Halo, players have to manipulate both joysticks simultaneously while working both triggers and pounding half a dozen buttons at the same time. The learning curve is steep...
...massing at the Iraqi border. Last week, Turkish commandos began crossing the border to pursue PKK fighters who take refuge in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Iranian Army on Monday shelled Kurdish villages in the Qandil mountains of northern Iraq, an area inhabited by PKK guerillas and used as a launching pad for Kurdish rebels seeking autonomy in Iran...
...craned or helicoptered onto your rooftop as an open-space pied-à-terre or office. The "personal home container" can be completed in three days and you can even do it yourself with friends if you're handy. Prices start at $95,200 - excluding crane time. THE PAD www.padlife.co.uk A London team aims to make cost overruns and missed construction deadlines obsolete. Their 100- to 200-sq-m Pad P-4 goes up in days, and plugs into a central core mounted on a precast iron foundation. Prices start at $129,000, with first units available in September. YOUMEHESHE www.youmeheshe.com...
...second 1,000 meters, the Crimson continued its game of catch-up, using an increased stroke rating in concerted pieces to try to pull even. Twice more Harvard pulled to within two seats, and twice more Dartmouth quelled the move and responded with one of its own to pad the margins again. Never did the Crimson pull even, and never did the margin grow to more than six seats. The separation stayed consistent through the finish line, when the Big Green crossed in 6:16.0 and Harvard followed suit in 6:18.3, exactly six seats behind. The second varsity race...
...group, agrees that the sheer number of people taking the GED shows the great desire among the dropout population to find a path back to a better education and a better life. But a new report published by his organization questions the effectiveness of the GED as a launching pad for higher education. Almost 60% of all dropouts go back for some kind of high school degree, most often a GED, but less than ten percent of that group who enrolled in some sort of college end up actually earning a degree. Cunningham says that students who drop...