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...topic we've considered and debated at Nintendo for a very long time is, Why do people who don't play video games not play them?" Iwata has been asking himself, and his employees, that question for the past five years. And what Iwata has noticed is something that most gamers have long ago forgotten: to nongamers, video games are really hard. Like hard as in homework. The standard video-game controller is a kind of Siamese-twin affair, two joysticks fused together and studded with buttons, two triggers and a four-way toggle switch called...
...become its guardian and most practical connoisseur, worked to model the air flows and monitor the carbon dioxide content and temperature in the cave. At the same time, the meaning of the prehistoric cave paintings, like those discovered earlier in southern France and northern Spain, became a topic of fertile interdisciplinary discussion. Some saw in these beasts primary evidence that from the beginning art was wrought for the sake of art. Others contended that the images were purely utilitarian, drawn solely to marshal magic that would help hunters succeed. Yet archaeological evidence is strong that while humans were painting...
...said I wanted to write about rudeboys. Suddenly there was this whole phenomenon in the early 1990s of young men who'd had enough of pandering to the system. They wanted to go create their own society and not hang out with white kids anymore." To his surprise, the topic was approved, and he spent months hanging with the Hounslow homeboys, jotting down their thoughts and folkways. His tutor, the late Susan Benson, shrewdly asked him to consider the subculture in terms of gender, not race. "Asserting their ethnicity is actually a way of asserting their masculinity," says Malkani, noting...
...said Shearer. “But only if you don’t try to tell the audience what to think in the third act,” he added. Shearer said a Simpsons episode planned for next season will pit Ned Flanders against creationism—a hot topic lately due to the intelligent design debates. O’Donnell, who served as the Democratic Chief of Staff of the Senate Committee on Finance from 1993 to 1995, depicted his make-believe White House as a place to debate political issues in a manner impossible on cable news...
...everybody, however, views conservation as such a taboo topic. The cantankerous Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has made repeat appearances on CNBC this week to bark out a stern conservation message. "If everyone cut back their driving by 3% we?d have gasoline coming out of our ears!" he told viewers. But he's one of the few lawmakers willing to publicly encourage cutting back. The President's four-point plan to reduce gas prices includes no mention of encouraging personal conservation - even though he has in the past pushed measures that create incentives to do so like giving...