Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing you can say about the Kremlin ? it hasn?t lost its sense of humor. Just when you thought Russia?s economy was down the toilet, the government on Thursday announced a $51 million budget surplus. Yes, surplus. That bit of statistical good news ? which the government attributes to more efficient tax collection ? happened to coincide, as good news usually does, with decisions by the IMF and other creditors to extend a little leeway on debt repayment. "Different ministries are already quarreling about how real the surplus is because the budget was calculated at a much higher ruble-to-dollar...
...Sound boring? Not at all. In fact, it may be the best thing that's every happened to game geeks...
...Good thing I did. Dreamcast can be, well, a dream: in graphics, sound and especially speed, it's a quantum leap ahead of the 64-bit consoles. If anything, it may be a little too brisk. Take Sonic Adventure, a revamped version of that Sega classic Sonic the Hedgehog, which the company is marketing as the quintessential Dreamcast game. The visuals are 3-Delicious--Sonic's footprints appear in the sand as he zooms by, while the sun glints in the lens just as it should. But dismal attempts at midair loop-the-loops left me cursing at controls that...
Then again, I'm hardly the target audience for Sonic Adventure. Much more my sort of thing is a fishing game called Get Bass. Your aim is to reel in a catch within a time limit, using a rodlike controller that vibrates every time you get a bite. The best bits: underwater shots of your bait, and a kind of fishy artificial intelligence that determines whether the bass will fall for it. I found myself returning to Get Bass again and again--and I'm no angler...
...with government authorities and pleading with other temple chiefs to clean up the river. "When I talk to officials, I show them reports on fecal coliform, and when I talk to local people, I show them there is s___ in the holy Ganges," he laughs. "It is the same thing, but I say it in different languages...