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...Electric City - named after an early network of trolley cars - is in the midst of a fairly successful reinvention. Nearly $400 million has been or is being invested in projects around the city, including a new medical school that Doherty says will employ 1,000 people. The city web site boasts about recent infusions into its downtown from companies like drug maker Sanofi Pasteur, which now occupies space in a former Woolworth department store. Last year, the Yankees moved its AAA farm team here from Columbus, Ohio; in May, Money magazine named Scranton one of the ten fastest-growing real...
...minted running mate, Barack Obama had a slip of the tongue. "Let me introduce you to the next President... the next Vice President of the United States of America," Obama told a crowd of 35,000 yesterday on the steps to the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, the same site where Obama announced his bid for the White House. The crowd laughed but, in many ways, Obama was telling the truth. The choice of Biden was meant to complete the Presidential candidate...
Players use clues to "find" the scepter, taking in a tour of the city as they search. To make the quest more challenging, each entry in the book has been sliced up and jumbled. The only way to reassemble it - and identify the site it describes - is to use a code sent to you by text. Then another text arrives with a question that can only be answered by visiting the site itself. Send the correct reply, and you get a new code to move on to the next site. The clues can lead to any of 60 landmarks...
...PLAY THE GAME -- Send a text to a phonenumber in the guide book. -- Receive a code that reassembles a jumbled entry and head to the site it describes. -- A second text contains a clue, the answer to which can only be found at the site. -- Reply with the right answer. -- A new code points to the next site, and the hunt for the Ruyi continues...
...developer Benj Clews, even five words are too many. Users submit four-word film reviews to his FWFR.com site--such as "Tense. Intense. In tents" for The Blair Witch Project and "This is Spaniel Tap" for Best in Show. "It's all about the sheer, honest bluntness the format forces," says Clews. But why four words? "Three words never seemed like quite enough," he says. "Five felt like overkill...