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...balance and docking points for every wobble. The hardest part, I quickly discovered, was simply standing or crouching still for increasingly long periods of time. That's a far cry from your average shoot-'em-up game, in which fast moves and fancy button-punching are key to your success. Wii Fit, on the other hand, is all about subtlety and restraint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weighing Wii Fit: Serious Fun | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

Official Russia basked in glory last July when President Vladimir Putin successfully spearheaded Russia's effort to win the 2014 Games. The country has not hosted the Olympics since the 1980 Moscow Games, which the U.S. boycotted to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. So the win for Sochi, proclaimed a reporter on Russia's state television station, was "perhaps the greatest success in Russia's modern history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Sochi | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...World Bank grant will be used to transport the devices. Lebone Solutions has secured private funding from a British donor, whose name Van Vuuren would not reveal, to match the World Bank’s grant. Members of Lebone Solutions are hopeful about the project’s success. “It’s really interesting to see the process of turning something in the lab into something that can impact someone’s life,” Fabry said. “We might be young and inexperienced, but we have access to the right technology...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Group Wins Grant for Low-Cost Lighting | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...farmers carefully scraping opium sap from their ripened poppies near the lush bank of the Helmand River are counted as a success story by Major Mike Shervington. They may be feeding the global drug trade, but at least they're here. Most locals had fled the village of Kajaki Olya when British forces took on the Taliban in 2006, and today their orchards, spilling with grapes, pomegranates, almonds and apricots lie untended. But the farmers have lately trickled back to tend crops of poppy and wheat - the wheat will feed their families, the opium will provide their income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treading Water in Opium Country | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...Analyst Shepherd is skeptical; he doubts there are enough consumers who want to play with 3D software to make the site a success. "It sounds very niche," he says. But even if only a small percentage of the countless millions of webizens now attracted to Web 2.0 are ready to play in a new dimension, they could still give 3DVIA a healthy user base. For Dassault, niche may be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 3D Comes to Web 2.0 | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

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