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...video-game industry, which convenes this week in Los Angeles for the giant Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), has been waiting nearly three years for this game. It stars a familiar character--a stumpy, mustachioed plumber named Mario--but it runs on a new machine so powerful, so blisteringly fast, so graphically rich that it could be single-handedly running out of lives...
...first staff artist, Miyamoto designed the popular Donkey Kong game four years later by combining themes from two of his favorite stories, King Kong and Beauty and the Beast. In 1985 he turned a sketch of a pint-size workman in a cap and droopy mustache into Mario the Plumber, the world's best-selling video-game character (total worldwide sales of Mario games in all formats: $5.85 billion...
...violence returned. Federal agents raided a suspected bombmaking site in central Georgia, arresting two members of a right-wing paramilitary group on bomb-conspiracy charges. The agents seized enough material to make 40 pipe bombs. Robert Edward Starr III, 34, an electrician, and William James McCranie Jr., 30, a plumber, were said to be stockpiling the arsenal in preparation for an upcoming "war" against the government. Starr and McCranie, who were taken into custody by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, are allegedly members of an organization known alternately as the Georgia Militia and the Militia at Large...
...conceal them in members homes until the day 'the war' begins, said Stern. ATF agents arrested the men after discovering bomb-making materials during a house raid in rural Crawford County, Georgia. "They appear to be what the ATF calls 'bubbas'," says TIME's Elaine Shannon. "One is a plumber and the other is an electrician. They call themselves a militia, but organized militias are not big in the South. There, the hate groups tend to be the Ku Klux Klan and skinheads...
...M.I.T., he applied his knowledge of drains to create a medical device for his daughter Ashley, 4, who suffers from multiple handicaps, including excessive buildup of stomach gas. The mechanism has a valve to control the flow of liquids and an air vent to allow gas to escape. The plumber and M.I.T.'s Technology Licensing Office now have a registered patent. He says, "I did this out of necessity in a desperate, frustrating situation...