Word: thirsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...object of Trespasser is to escape a dinosaur-infested island. Three years in the making, the game features whizzy technology, including artificial intelligence for the dinosaurs. "They have emotions just like we do," says Brady Bell, the game's associate producer. "They have a brain and experience fear, hunger, thirst, pain, annoyance and curiosity." The game is driven by what Bell calls a "first-ever, real-time physics engine." Wade out into a pond, for instance, and watch the water ripple gently ahead of you. Bend down and pick up a flower and throw it into the pond...
...make money off his favorite hobby, and his towers, bridges and platforms can now be found in six sites around the world. The Vegas location features a 175-foot tower, an extensive selection of bungy-related clothing and souvenirs and a juice bar to quench your post-jump thirst...
...developed an almost obsessive attraction to travel. In 1913, at 15, he journeyed alone through Europe for four months before returning to the U.S. for prep school. He was, he said, "a fanatical sightseer," and he visited cities, museums and other sites with a relentless and methodical efficiency. That thirst for knowledge and experience--at times, it seemed, an almost undifferentiated thirst, a quest to see and know about everything, large and small, important and arcane--helped determine the direction of his career...
...exploded, the stock market had crashed and Saddam Hussein had assassinated Castro and kidnapped the Pope, nobody would be aware of it. The domination of the news by the Clinton scandal was total. Maybe special prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Lewinsky's pal Linda Tripp will finally satisfy Americans' insatiable thirst for titillation and dirt. The name Tripp will surely live in infamy and replace Brutus as the archetypal betrayer. NORMAN GRONWOLD Norcross, Minn...
...answer from evolutionary psychology is that men are still saddled with urges that evolved in our precontraceptive hunter-gatherer past. More sex with more females meant more offspring, so genes giving males a thirst for sex with a variety of partners (especially young, hence quite fertile, partners) flourished. So did genes inspiring men to pursue the social status that tends to attract partners. In a sense, then, the very purpose of the power that Presidents Clinton and Kennedy spent their life amassing was to expand their sex life. Can we really blame a guy for doing what's natural? There...