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...skeptic until I tested what's already here. It doesn't look like much, but a game called Snake, which is on most Nokia phones, is highly addictive. In a kind of virtual scavenger hunt, players collect pieces of "food" scattered onscreen. The more food you collect, the longer your onscreen "snake" grows, and the more points you get. To maneuver, you press the 2 key to move up, the 8 key to go down and so on. I was even more impressed by the upcoming version of Tetris that Ericsson managed to squeeze into its T28 world phone. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial T for Tetris | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

Kabala cites a 1997 article from Science claiming global warming theory as inconclusive. Surely, Kabala read the end of the article that cites a skeptic as saying he views warming theory with 97 percent confidence. Kabala cites satellite data that says there has been no global warming since 1979; surely, he is aware of the findings in Nature that show that those readings did not take orbital decay into account. After the correction, warming trends corresponding to temperature become evident. These scientists, backed up by NASA scientists in a more recent Science article, "conclude that the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...maintain a state of perfect paranoia to stay ahead. Cisco is facing tough competition in the telecom-equipment business, where longtime powerhouses Lucent and Nortel enjoy established expertise and relationships with key customers. "It's one thing to build a network the size of a corporation," says a skeptic, Nortel ceo John Roth, "but it's another to build one the scale of a whole nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Network Effect | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Couldn't happen, says the skeptic. Not as long as the Army (480,000 strong), Navy (372,000), Air Force (361,000) and Marines (172,000) have the National Guard's back. Surely 1,385,000 G.I. Joes and Janes can outmaneuver less than a million P.O.'d USPS Petes and Pams...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: Just Say Uh-Oh to Drug Testing | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

Take it from a skeptic: if you want to learn how to protect yourself and get in shape, there's nothing more fun to do than beat up on people like me. For those of you lost in the morass of spring recruiting, I'm sure Goldman Sachs needs butt-kickers...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Just try to relax . . . " Little Takes on the Black Belts | 3/1/2000 | See Source »

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