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...contrast, Carmack, 36, says he is just a computer guy who got bored and taught himself rocket science. Yet in aerospace circles, the gamer and head of id Software is respected for doing results-oriented rocketry work on little dime. His shop in a suburban Dallas business complex looks like something out of Star Wars--Watto's junk shop on Tatooine, to be precise. Carmack takes you first to see his graveyard of old projects to explain his philosophy: Fly a whole lot, and learn where the gotchas are. He admits that he would like to go to the moon...
...Kajeet is trying to blend cool technology with practical parenting to create a must-have gadget. At a suburban Baltimore research facility recently, a group of pre-adolescent beta testers prepared to share their feelings about the service. The good news for Kajeet: all four guinea pigs, Christian, Derrick, Trent and Nick gave the phone service high marks. "I've been wanting for something like this for a year. It makes me feel independent and my friends can find me anytime," said Derrick, 12, adding after a pause, "and if I'm in trouble I can call my parents." Kajeet...
...Park” follows the lives of five young British housewives through the course of one rainy day and culminates, like “Mrs. Dalloway,” in a dinner party. Cusk’s heroines are the crème de la crème of suburban homemakers, capable women in their mid to late thirties who expertly stuff chicken breasts for dinner with one hand while keeping order among a host of rowdy toddlers with the other. All this, and yet they unfailingly find time to philosophize about topics ranging from moral responsibilities to the meaning...
...right, I’ll admit it. I once had a crush on Fall Out Boy. I found “Sugar, We’re Going Down” soon after the suburban Chicago band’s 2005 album hit the radio. The song breathed life into the orange-haired, black-nail-polished part of me I’d ignored since my pre-teen years. I’d found my secret summer love. But God, why are the pretty ones always so damn stupid? “Infinity on High” lacks the cheek that...
...Chemically, Apollo's creations are no different from the diamond that is squeezed from carbon deep in the earth at incredible pressure and temperature. "It still blows people's minds that you can manufacture diamond," says Bryant Linares, president and CEO of the 17-year-old company based in suburban Boston. "People still feel that there is something mystical about diamonds and how they are made...