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...gains extraordinary powers when playing a card game. The boom began when it was introduced as a plot twist in the Yu-Gi-Oh manga-comic series, which then spawned an actual card game, as well as Game Boy and PlayStation software, an animated TV show, action figures, pencil boxes and countless other money-sucking doodads. Yu-Gi-Oh is already a $2 billion industry; it caused a riot at a Tokyo games convention and has been banned from Bangkok schools. Its U.S. kickoff is slated for the fall...
...people out of a population of 120 million have Internet accounts. Africa Online gets around this problem by offering cheap Internet access at more than 600 of its branded e-touch centers, where customers can send e-mails for about 10?, roughly the cost of an envelope and pencil. The service has some 60,000 users and centers can be found in post offices, fast food outlets and stand-alone stores. In South Africa, the company's initial push will ignore the highly competitive home dial-up market there and concentrate on offering e-touch services to the growing, well...
...Comics," by Rachel Masilamani (24pp. $3.00) has a soft, colored-pencil cover that gives it a hand-made look. Which it is, in a way - she's self-publishing it. Inside the magazine-sized comic are black and white drawings of a skill that could only come from an art major. But while most art majors don't do comics well (the challenges of such a literary art form elude them) Masilamani seems to be a natural storyteller...
...them were a few Tamiya Waterlines, noticeably more expensive than the English and French kits. I bought one, and every afternoon for about a week I sat at my little typing table and assembled the Fubuki, a Japanese destroyer. It was a tiny little ship, no longer than a pencil and no wider than my thumb. But it was as fine and filigreed as the inside of a wristwatch. I painstakingly painted it to look like the picture on the box and then let it sit on my desk for the rest of the semester. Somehow, for me, it still...
...listeners, causing many laymen to conclude that creative skills can be boosted too. Last year Harvard University released a study called Project Zero that analyzed 50 years of research on this idea. The studies showed that college students who had listened to music performed better on paper-and-pencil spatial tests, but the effect lasted no more than 15 minutes and then faded away. There was no evidence that the listening improved brain power or artistic skills, and certainly none that suggested babies could realize any benefit...