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...share of controversy. Measured by its body count, GTA3 is pretty tame--compared with, for example, Space Invaders--but all that freedom can lead to some vicious scenarios. You can run over pedestrians if you so desire, then shoot the paramedics who show up and loot their bodies for spare change. (Then you can spend your ill-gotten gains on one of Liberty City's many prostitutes.) Video games are protected by the First Amendment, but when GTA3 was released in Australia, the government pulled it from shelves until Rockstar could come up with a tamer, edited version...
...spyware programs installed on your computer without your consent [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR TECHNOLOGY, Oct. 7] referred to B3D, a product of Brilliant Digital Entertainment, saying that when you download a copy of Kazaa's file-sharing software, B3D is installed. We also said that B3D allows your PC's spare computer power to be used by Brilliant's network. This power-sharing feature has not yet been activated, and, the company says, it will not be used without the computer owner's specific consent...
PLEADED GUILTY. SAMUEL WAKSAL, 54, Former chief executive of ImClone Systems, to insider-trading charges. Among them: telling his daughter to dump shares of his highflying biotech firm just before news broke that the FDA had rejected one of its cancer drugs. Waksal is trying to spare family members from prosecution. His plea might not help home diva Martha Stewart, also under investigation for improperly selling ImClone shares...
...Chen is like spending time with an unprepossessing college girl, one with the usual enthusiasm for gossip, shopping, boys and boogie. "Even though I studied hard and took on summer internships, people always thought I was a party girl," Chen says. Partying is no longer an avocation. What little spare time she has is spent playing with her miniature schnauzer, Tenshi, and talking with her brother, the family member she says she is closest...
...Defense Minister Ivan Djokic was sacked following allegations that a state-run company was linked to arms sales to Iraq, in violation of U.N. sanctions. The U.S. State Department accused Jugoimport SDPR, an arms-procurement agency, of helping Orao, a Bosnian Serb firm, to sell Iraq military equipment, including spare parts for Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter planes. American and Bosnian officials said nato peacekeepers found proof of the sales at Orao's factory in eastern Bosnia. Jugoimport's office in Baghdad was ordered to shut. SPAIN Separate Ways The favorite to be the new president of Catalonia's ruling...