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...sort of place where you expect great machines to be built--a cramped, windowless room where keyboard wires and screen cables coil round cups of stale coffee. A handful of X-shaped boxes in brushed metal, each polished to perfection for a punishing 15 hours, lie on workbenches in varying states of completion. The team of six engineers putting them together has gone four days with less than four hours' sleep each night. There's a maniacal tinge to their humor. Bald-pated Drew Angeloff has taken to teasing his colleagues with the blue flame of his soldering equipment. "Help...
...speed, memory and hard drive, the X-box is beefier than any other games console, including the much ballyhooed PlayStation 2. Early demonstrations are jaw-droppingly good. Imagine 1,024 Ping-Pong balls on screen--the engineers take geekish delight in disclosing the exact number--bouncing around like crazy on a varnished oak floor, springing 1,024 mousetraps. Or 1,024 butterflies fluttering organically round a Japanese garden where plants sway gently in a breeze you can almost feel on your cheek. It's like watching your first Pixar movie, except you're the director--making butterflies scatter...
...have been on only a week, and I am hooked. You log on and post how fast you want to play (five minutes for the whole game is customary) and how strong an opponent you want. Within seconds, your screen is alive. A chessboard has appeared; your opponent has already moved; your clock, posted onscreen in ominous Apollo-countdown mode, is running...
Reading King on a glowing screen is, in fact, an appropriately eerie experience. Citing his fear of the dark, Alan notes, "Even with a light on there are so many shadows." Riding the Bullet can be read with the light...
Guns are hot these days - everyone from the President to Moses (or at least the guy who played him on the big screen) has taken to the airwaves, deploring the most recent shootings and pleading their personal brand of sanity and law enforcement. While the NRA seems to be relishing its provocative role in the current confrontation, taking verbal shots at Clinton and the FBI, its presumptive allies, the gun makers, may be less interested in alienating the government. Friday, Smith & Wesson announced it had struck a deal with the feds; the gun giant agreed to implement safety devices...