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...rebels kidnapped 60 children from an orphanage school. Initially unita denied that any children had been taken, but by week's end the group's chief of staff General Geraldo Abreu said that any children kidnapped in the attack on Caxito would be released at the nearest mission station...
...Xbox match GameCube for visuals? You bet. If anything, it's even more cinematically realistic and detail obsessed. Just take a walk through the space station in Halo, an action game based on Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and you'll notice fingerprint marks on triple-glazed windows. Or check out Oddworld, one of the laugh-out-loud funniest video games in a long time. The scaly textured reflective skin on the alien heroes, Abe and Munch, is easily up to Jurassic Park standards...
...payback for all those insufferable, phony-rich, new-economy yuppies in their view-blocking, death-dealing, friend-of-OPEC SUVs. "Gas will probably go to $3, and I applaud it," says the retired computer-company executive as he fills the tank of his light pickup truck at a station in Los Angeles. "I'd like to see all gas guzzlers off the road...
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham acknowledges that the new policy won't do much now, but he insists that those short-term issues will be addressed "on a separate track." His department is investigating reports that gas-station owners have been told to expect $3-a-gal. prices this summer. Those rumors, Abraham suggests, might be evidence of price gouging. "Rumors become self-fulfilling prophecies," he says...
...talking larceny. Robert Saroki, a Marathon gas-station owner in Wixom, Mich., keeps hearing stories of crazed drivers smashing the glass on other stations' pumps. Steve Glazer says customers at his Flushing, N.Y., Mobil station are so angry he is going to wear a helmet to work. Says Glazer, who has watched his profit margins erode to nothing: "I'd like to know who's making all the money...