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...Clad in the trademark silk robe, your aim is to build a mansion cool enough to attract pin-ups and celebrity interviews for your magazine. The better the sales, the better your mansion gets, and the more celebs clamor to get in. Unlike Hef, you get to snap the shutter at the photo shoots. The game was unveiled at the Playboy Mansion itself - which, alas, only served to point out how far videogames have to go to truly catch up with reality...
...nation's interior, most of Beijing's outlying shantytowns have emptied as their frightened residents flee the SARS hot zone. Wang Shu is one of the few souls left in Dual Springs, and he's had to temporarily close his pool hall because of a citywide decree to shutter all entertainment venues until May 9. "If I can't reopen then, I'll have to shut the business and leave, too," says the native of rural Henan province. He'll get out any way he can, he says, whether by squeezing onto the overflowing trains or hitching a ride from...
...bringing about instability. Uncertainty is bad for an economy, but instability is a killer. In uncertain times people worry about whether to postpone a vacation, while businesses put off hiring decisions and reduce spending. In unstable times, people stockpile food or hit the road as refugees, while businesses shutter. Uncertainty focuses on worries about what the future might bring, while instability has to do with upheavals in the here...
Several hours and many shutter-clicks later, these two had compiled photographic accounts of their experiences at last Saturday’s massive anti-war protest in New York City...
...handlers and his security wedge and his tireless self-awareness and makes some gesture or expression that is not in the fat playbook of official gestures and expressions. At which point the scrupulously prepared, emotionally intrepid photographer--we're talking here about Walker--gets the pleasure of hearing the shutter click like a purse being closed with a pearl inside...