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...India, where religion dominates lives and where many of the country's 330 million gods take the shape of animals, birds and demons, the supernatural is often fused with reality, and reason often gets plowed under by superstition. In frightened northern and eastern New Delhi, home to some 4 million people, no neighborhood is dark after sunset anymore. Power outages have been stopped as a result of the panic, and city politicians guarantee electricity will remain on around-the-clock until the monster is caught (or forgotten). Wandering bands of vigilantes guard neighborhoods with wooden cudgels, daggers, field-hockey sticks...
...long term, the corruption problem may hurt Macedonia even more than the extremists. And of course the economy is in really poor shape, with huge unemployment. Many young people simply don't see any future in studying or working, and that's fertile ground for the growth of extremism in both the Albanian and Macedonian Slav communities. But the government is still standing two weeks after it was created, and it will probably hold on for a while. If they manage to avoid serious civilian casualties in the offensive against the rebels, they'll buy some time...
Last month seventh- and eighth-graders studying Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth tapped into a website to see live shots of active volcanoes and examine diagrams of the earth's core. On the same day, math students manipulated the size and shape of triangles on their laptops, watching as the angles and areas changed. "When you can see it, you can believe it," says teacher Heather Marshall. Learning on laptops, she says, is at once "deeper" and more...
Long before the current battle took shape, the two companies fought to win over independent game developers, who are critical to any platform's success. The key promise for any nascent game console is to make your machine easier to program than the other guy's--so developers can practically forget programming altogether and let their imagination run riot...
...appliances--TVs, VCRs, stereos, satellite dishes, what have you--instead of just one. It will also handle devices from any manufacturer. Since my apartment is practically a museum for obscure, obsolete and otherwise obstreperous electronics, I need a remote that can whip a whole houseful of misfit gadgets into shape, kind of like Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen. I set out to find...