Word: sandboxes
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...realize I'll have to go play it again. Which may sound strange: this is, after all, a conference about fun. Surely spending three days looking at games beats any day job? But as attendees know, E3 is more like a cult rally than a high-tech sandbox. It's a little like Jonestown, only the Kool-Aid comes in iced cans at every booth and the only corpses are the ones piling up on the TV screens...
...Better sandbox skills are all the more critical as the economy keeps producing nasty surprises such as last week's report that 40,000 more Americans were out of work (not counting O'Neill and Lindsey) and that the unemployment rate had risen to 6%, up from 5.7% the previous month. With the next presidential election less than two years away, "we recognize that we can no longer blame this on our predecessor," says a senior White House adviser. Nor can the Administration afford to prolong domestic turmoil as it seeks to rally public support for a possible war with...
...children's sandbox in Kfar Darom was obviously built for peaceful times. It sits beneath a ficus tree, shaded from the Middle East sun. But these days the box is mostly empty, since the tree provides no cover from the "sniper house" across the road. Regular salvos from the second floor of the unfinished Palestinian house rake the settlement, home to 250 people...
...They're sort of like bullies in a sandbox--they take their toys and escape," Kahn said of Immune Response...
...Sandbox Manufacturers of America: "We are outraged that CBS would permit such obvious disregard for sand. Exactly what kind of message are we sending to the youth of America when 'Survivor' cast members are free to relieve themselves at will right there on the beach? CBS programming executives must ask themselves if they are prepared to face up to their responsibility for turning the nation's sandboxes into so many toilets...