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...Manchu mustache, attacks me from the left. I knock him out with a swift kick to the stomach. Kazaaam! He comes back at me from the right, so I retaliate with a masterful chop to the chin. Pow! This fight sequence is playing out on my TV screen, but it's really me in the picture. Thanks to EyeToy, Sony's latest advance on the computer game, anyone can be an action hero. Launched in the U.K. last week and due across Europe this summer, EyeToy is a PlayStation 2 add-on that uses a motion-tracking camera to transfer...
...prefer to look at Larry King while you shave (ouch!), or read your e-mail while brushing your teeth. That, at any rate, is what Philips thinks you might want to do in your bathroom. The Dutch electronics company is launching a mirror that triples up as TV screen and Internet monitor. Plug in a laptop or video feed and the polarized mirror lets through close to 100% of the light from the LCD screen behind. Philips says its first buyers later this year will likely be Dutch hotels, which will also use them for pay-per-view movies...
...comparisons between Jesus and Muhammad ("Jesus arose from the dead and is alive. Muhammad is dead.") and of dos and don'ts of ministering to Muslims. (Do listen to their story. Don't argue about Israel.) She projected a statement by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on a screen: "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you." After his comment was publicized in late 2001, Ashcroft said it referred to terrorists and not to mainstream Muslims...
...business teaching in Kyrgyzstan--and missionary-recruitment seminars can sound like job bazaars. At a small Tennessee Bible church, a mission facilitator assured his listeners that "if you're a native speaker and can fog up a mirror, you can teach" English abroad. He projected a cartoon on a screen to show the advantages of being unofficial: a man wearing a turban and dagger halts a standard-issue, briefcase-toting missionary at a striped barrier while another Westerner carrying a toolbox strolls blithely through, toward a mosque in the middle distance...
While security guards and Harvard University Police Department officers carried metal-detector wands to screen visitors, their scans were few and far between, and lines of people moved through gates into the Yard at a relatively quick pace...