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...will arrive some night during the next few weeks, when a fellow from id Software will quietly upload the game onto a secret Internet-linked computer. Within minutes, Quake will be copied to three dozen public computers nationwide. Then ravening game players, like mosquitoes attacking suntan-oiled vacationers, will suck the program into their home PCs. If they want a second course, they can transmit $50 to id's owners, four game jockeys in Mesquite, Texas, whose software skills and marketing smarts have made them richer than a lucky wildcatter...
...roofs off barns. One suspects that, as a movie monster, this killer twister may be a dud: it has no personality and can't sneak up on you. But with the heft of Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and Jan de Bont (Speed) behind it, Twister could suck hot air and still gross a quick $100 million...
...Andrew isn't that wealthy, earning about $420,000 a year, from which he has to pay his staff. And the public has a lot less sympathy for Fergie than for Diana, partly because of Fergie's carefree, sometimes careless ways (and not least because she let a Texan suck her toes). The duchess has promised not to write a tell-all, but children's books are allowed. All in all, the second divorce among the Queen's children looks to be as amicable as the first. Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips (remember him?) live near each other...
...services attacked one another like kids in a sandbox. HotWired, the electronic sister publication of Wired magazine, has been ceaselessly twitting other successful sites--such as Time Warner's Pathfinder and the computer guide c|net--for offenses real and imagined. Last week the whining became too much for Suck, a trendy online journal, which posted a spirited complaint about HotWired's "constant needling" and noted that rival bashing swapped places only with "back patting" on HotWired's Web pages. Look for a return volley on HotWired this week. In another online mud fight, ESPNET SportsZone unleashed a filtering program...
...Basically, it does suck, but when I came looking here, I came in the middle of March when there were two feet of snow, so I kind of knew what I was getting into," said David L. Boggs '98, a native of Louisville, Kentucky...