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Despite the failure of movies modeled after successful video games--most notably Super Mario Brothers and Mortal Kombat--Hollywood still hasn't realized that video games do not work on the big screen. This phenomenon is even more applicable to Wing Commander, a computer game that already bills itself as an interactive movie. There is absolutely no need to make the transition between computer screen and theater screen. As soon as the interactive element is gone, there is little to capture the interest of the audience. Wing Commander: The Movie crashes and burns...
...Riley says the low level of "crime to persons" can also be attributed to a phenomenon he calls "hardening the target"--training the Harvard community to better protect themselves and their property...
...Stewart says the phenomenon of financially strapped student groups existing within the richest university in the world results naturally when administrators--and not students--define the nature of student needs...
...result of switching to the Holyoke Center transmitter was a phenomenon called "blanketing," common near large FM transmitters. Audio equipment and other electronic devices located close to a transmitter may receive the signal and begin broadcasting it without being tuned to the station...
Women tend to suffer their first heart attack 10 years older than men. Yet, partly because the women are older, those heart attacks are more often fatal. This is a postmenopausal phenomenon, a trade-off for years of protection from estrogen. Staying bathed in the hormone keeps blood vessels elastic and free of hardened-plaque formations. Estrogen also instructs the liver to churn out more HDL, or good cholesterol, which pulls plaque away from artery walls...