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...Hollywood, will never grow up. No matter how mainstream the potential audience gets, they will always want to play wizards, shoot zombies, skateboard, wrestle. Female characters are fine, but they must wear bikinis and have figures unlike any woman who isn't nine inches tall and made out of plastic. Games are good if they have the loudest bangs, the coolest aliens and the most gore. Not everyone in the industry has their head buried in the sandbox like this. The best-selling game of all time is The Sims, which took as its subject matter the most mundane aspects...
...names CosmoDerm and CosmoPlast. But it is hardly the most exotic substance being shot into women's faces these days. More than half a dozen "dermal fillers" are already available on the U.S. market or may be soon--a witches' brew of injectables that includes cow collagen, liquid silicone, plastic microbeads, synthetic bone and the ground-up skin of human cadavers...
...orders 90 minutes before production time, cutting inventory costs for both parties. Nissan's suppliers also preassemble "modules," say, for a front-end or cockpit, and deliver them in the sequence in which they're needed on the line: a batch of leather-finished cockpits for SUVs, followed by plastic-finished versions and then different cockpits for pickup trucks. Nissan's paint shop was designed for high flexibility too, using robotic painters that are programmed to switch spray patterns based on the model...
Then the war with Iraq starts, and the last third of "Persepolis" tells of its domestic ramifications. Tehran, where Satrapi lived, soon became a target for bombing and eventually for scud missiles. One day the maid arrives with a plastic, gold-painted key given to her son in school. "They told the boys that if they went to war and were lucky enough to die, this key would get them into heaven." A cousin from the front lines confirms the use of underclass children as mine fodder. One chilling page depicts the silhouettes of exploding bodies with keys around their...
...shooting ended in Karbala, a holy city 60 miles southwest of Baghdad, the killing began for the family of Samira Jabar. Emerging on April 6 from two days of hiding from U.S. bombing, Jabar took her daughter Duaa Raheem, 6, to fetch water. Duaa happened on a black plastic object shaped like a C-cell battery attached to a white ribbon. Curious, she picked it up and brought her discovery home to share with her two sisters. On the concrete floor of their tiny kitchen, she cradled the object in her lap and twisted a screw. The explosion it triggered...