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...want to go toe to toe with the roving thugs: they're tough, and if one gets in trouble, they will all mob you at once. The acme of the manhunter's art is the silent, solo kill: wait patiently in the shadows, follow stealthily, then take down your prey from behind. Manhunt is as much an audio game as a video game: you have to listen carefully to track your foes through the dark, dank alleyways. Rest assured they will be listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Danger In The Dark | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

THEORY NO. 1 Bad programs. Bad, at least, if you want to attract young men. Testosterone-friendly shows from last season like Fox's Firefly and the WB's Birds of Prey are gone, and most of the shows that have had modest success this year (such as The O.C. and Joan of Arcadia) skew toward women. That leaves a big opening for cable. Channels like FX and ESPN are up in young male viewers. (See page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Watch: Those Missing Young Men: A Network Mystery | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...aloud, even sang the song lyrics themselves, caught up in their humor. When Dylan becomes a rock critic later in the novel, he notes the ignorance of his childhood self: “Of course, the 35-year-old rock critic knew what the 13-year-old scrap of prey on the sidewalk outside Intermediate School 293 never did: Wild Cherry were a bunch of white guys...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lethem Talks ‘Solitude’ to Cantab Crowd | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...rocky hills and scrub pines where the enemy can nestle into position at close range while remaining invisible. When the soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division venture out in humvee patrols along dusty tracks they have dubbed Chevy, Pontiac and Camaro, they know how easily a hunter can become prey. As U.S. Army Colonel Rodney Davis puts it, "Shkin is the evilest place in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle in the Evilest Place | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...waits patiently, cautiously targeting his prey, waiting for the moment to strike. Without warning he disappears into the shadow of an offensive lineman, reemerging on the other side as he lowers his shoulders and moves in for the kill...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grimm Brings Depth to Defensive Line | 10/29/2003 | See Source »

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