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...though, VR entertainment is starting to bloom where movies did nearly a century ago: in the arcades. A penny in the slot once offered streetwise strollers a peek at Fatima's dance; now $4 to $30 gets you a sleigh ride on a space ship (in Cybergate) or a fretful stroll through a computerized Acropolis (in Dactyl Nightmare, by Virtuality). And why not the arcades? Video games are a $5.3 billion business in the U.S., about as large as the theatrical movie market...
...rockers have a touch of the devil in them. Some bare their demons flagrantly, others let their horns peek out from under a halo of good intentions. Matthew Sweet, who likes to mix bad-boy guitar licks with well- mannered melodies, belongs among the latter. As a lyricist, Sweet writes about girls and God with the same confessional zeal, seemingly torn between hardened skepticism and the promise of faith and romantic redemption. Yet despite his doubts -- or perhaps because he still cares enough to wonder -- Providence has smiled...
...light amid spooky music. Nearby is an adventure ride called Water Crash -- a drip-dry, 5-minute introduction to white-water rafting. The rapids are projected onto a screen as the raft bucks on a pool of water. Visitors can also sample from the menus of 15 restaurants and peek into the computerized control room that operates the retractable dome -- the largest in the world...
...addition, the network will be the perfect target for hackers. An attack on South Podunk U. is shrugged off by the media--a successful peek at Harvard's internecine feuding would make The New York Times...
Many Harvard professors say the practice has no scientific basis, and is little but superstition, but some Harvard students sheepishly confess they often take a peek at their horoscopes, and even occasionally find truth there...