Word: player
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...leaders have an enemy in their sights but because they seek the kind of credibility that a truly modern military brings. Capitol Hill rhetoric aside, China doesn't covet nuclear missiles so it can lob them at Los Angeles. It wants them so that it can be a legitimate player on the international stage, a nation fully in control of its own military destiny. So, as its entrepreneurs have embraced StarTacs and Yahoo!, Beijing's generals now want to trade their antique weaponry and cold war tactics for the PlayStation power they see in NATO's arsenal...
...update the deck's software automatically. In the fall, for instance, it will turn all those DISHPlayers into digital VCRs, so that instead of just pausing shows, users will be able to store stuff for later playback. By the end of the year, an upgrade will turn the player into a jukebox, so that CD-quality music that's currently beamed down in real time can be stored for playing later over your stereo system (assuming you've hooked your TV to a stereo). The connection is so fast, says an EchoStar spokesman, that entire CDs could be transmitted...
CLASS CLOWN David Bowie (4), at Berklee College of Music: "How does a tuba player answer the telephone? Hello, Domino...
Playing violent video games does not necessarily desensitize the player to atrocities, but the social isolation that goes along with an addiction to such games can. Even when competing against a real-life person, a player has almost no social interaction. These games can be dangerous when taken in large doses. MIKE DOJC Toronto
Determined to loosen Disney's choke hold on area tourism, Seagram's Universal division bought an additional 1,900 acres in the area late last year. That's enough for two more parks. Anheuser-Busch's Sea World, the third big player in central Florida, is adding a splashy new park in which visitors will be able to swim with the residents. That interactive attraction is scheduled to open next year...