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...Atari classics, whereas Flashback is a disappointment, lacking in both depth and performance. The best thing about Flashback is that you don't need a PlayStation or an Xbox to use it. Testers liked playing Centipede, in which you shoot and destroy insects that are rapidly wiggling down the screen. "I feel like I have more control," said one woman, comparing it with the Anthology version. On the downside, Flashback has more than 75% fewer games than Anthology, and its cheap-feeling joystick was hard to maneuver. Even in Breakout, where you just hit a ball with a paddle...
...lives, but it also plays its part in shaping them. Marketers have picked up on the fact that twixters on their personal voyages of discovery tend to buy lots of stuff along the way. "They are the optimum market to be going after for consumer electronics, Game Boys, flat-screen TVs, iPods, couture fashion, exotic vacations and so forth," says David Morrison, president of Twentysomething Inc., a marketing consultancy based in Philadelphia. "Most of their needs are taken care of by Mom and Dad, so their income is largely discretionary. [Many twentysomethings] are living at home, but if you look...
...memory and hard-drive size as a low-end G4 Power Mac and comes with the latest version of Mac OS X. Plug in the peripherals, and you will rarely notice the difference. The $99 iPod Shuffle, however, could never be mistaken for its larger cousin. There's no screen on which to view the song currently playing, and it holds only 126 tracks. (A $150 model doubles that capacity.) It's called the Shuffle because that's the best thing you can do with it: stick it into the USB port of your computer, and it will quickly download...
...DIED. AMRISH PURI, 72, baritone-voiced Bollywood actor who reigned as India's favorite movie villain for 30 years; in Bombay. Although he didn't make his screen debut until age 40 with 1971's Reshma Aur Shera, Puri enjoyed a prolific film career, acting in more than 200 movies. His success in foreign features such as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gandhi brought him global recog-nition, while his role as devious gang leader Mogambo in 1987's Mr. India made him a cult figure at home...
...flat-panel technology developed by Toshiba and Canon was at the center of scrutiny. Billed as the technology that could bring down plasma, SED takes the idea of conventional cathode-ray-tube televisions and miniaturizes it: instead of one big electron gun exciting all the phosphors on a screen in sequence, millions of little electrical nodes do the same thing simultaneously. The result is picture contrast and response time that outstrip plasma and LCD with a much lower power drain. Toshiba says that production costs over time could make SED TVs relatively affordable, but the first, a big-screen...