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...sounds of a steam whistle and a puffing train can evoke another era. At Museum Meiji-Mura, tel: (81-568) 670 314, they take you to one. Set outside Inayuma, near Nagoya in central Japan, the open-air museum park comprises a collection of splendid, century-old buildings rescued from demolition, linked by historic train and trolley cars...
...spent the past four years painstakingly studying optics, and he has figured out how to make photons bounce around in a virtual space in much the same way that they do in the real world. Suddenly, pebbly surfaces cast pebbly shadows. Air ripples from the heat of a broken steam pipe. There is a crispness to details, a weight and solidity to objects and figures, a lifelike sheen to surfaces in Doom 3 that is unlike anything we've seen before...
...divided on whether the new Cabinet heralded real change. "This is a new generation, with new ideas and a new way of thinking," a senior official told TIME. But Hisham Kassem, publisher of the proreform Cairo daily Al-Masry al-Youm, said: "It strikes me as a release of steam more than a progressive move...
...Bush Administration is betting that putting Iraqis in charge of their own country will take the steam out of the armed resistance. And in Allawi they hope they have found a man tough enough to back up his inaugural words: "I say that we will hunt them down to give them their just punishment." But many Iraqis regard this second appointed regime as just another set of American puppets. "Nothing has changed," says Harith al-Dhari, head of the Association of Muslim Scholars and a Sunni sheik who some U.S. officials say is linked to insurgents. "This is a government...
...initiative gained steam, even criticism roused excitement. On Oct. 8, 2002, Crimson columnist Joshua I. Weiner mocked protestors who can smell “a non-fair-trade cup of coffee from a mile away and can instantly mount an impassioned protest without even thinking...