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Next month, when video-game titan Electronic Arts launches The Sims Online, it will become something more than a game. Using the Internet, The Sims Online will enable millions of individual Sims to live, work and hang out together in a shared virtual world very much like our own. Result: a daring collective social experiment that could tell us some interesting things about who we are as a country. We're about to witness the birth of Simulation Nation...
...between Croatia - which is challenging the indictment and refusing (so far) to hand over Bobetko - and the U.N. war-crimes court. A second front has opened, too, along domestic political lines. Prime Minister Ivica Racan's weak center-left coalition faces a population that largely regards Bobetko as a titan of Croatia's three-and-a-half-year independence war with Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. "Bobetko is a national hero," says one Zagreb man, reflecting the view of up to 80% of the population. Sending Bobetko to the Hague would be political suicide for Racan. Given the overwhelming support...
Advent Networks Inc., a two-year-old Austin, Texas, maker of broadband equipment for cable operators, hit pay dirt in May when it signed Mitsubishi to be its distributor in Japan. Already the Asian trading titan has got an order to sell $5 million worth of Advent's equipment to Tokai Group's AIC Cable Network, Japan's fourth largest cable operator, over the next two years...
...burial underground isn't a problem, then it's not crazy to think that life exists in the permafrost beneath the surface of Mars, or in the ice-capped ocean that may encircle Jupiter's moon Europa, or in the seas that may exist on Saturn's moon Titan. Indeed, NASA considers extremophiles so relevant to its search for life in the universe that in 1997 it created the Astrobiology Institute at its Ames Research Center near San Francisco, devoted in part to the study of these peculiar organisms...
...French business titan Jean-Marie Messier been a footballer, he might not be suffering disgrace and joblessness today. Last month, after France's World Cup humiliation, President Jacques Chirac advised disgruntled fans against turning on their beloved Bleus - warning "we mustn't burn today what we considered beautiful yesterday." Messier wasn't so lucky. Though once regarded as a national hero for turning a sleepy French water company into the world's second-largest media group, Vivendi Universal, Messier saw his corporate reign come to an ignoble end last week as the stock market and the French media, business...