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...week started a run in the U.K., has a loyal cadre of fans who tune in to watch homemade robots slug it out until one of them is reduced to a pile of junk. Now BattleBots the website (www.battlebot.com) lets you put together a virtual robot, adding a tank tread here, a sawblade there, to see how it might look in action. As well as providing news of upcoming competitions, pro tips on bot-building and rules for entry, the site is one of the first to employ the new SVG graphics and animation file format that lets you customize...
...bluntly that while it's willing to talk over the details, its mind is made up. Disputes are looming about how to rejigger sanctions against Iraq and over which countries should next get into nato. There's a bumper crop of noisy trade issues too, and all of them tread on sensitive domestic toes: bananas, R and D subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, the genetically modified grub Americans are happy to swallow but Europeans denounce as "Frankenfood...
...doors that open and functional cooling-heating and communications systems. Sometimes the art of being a great leader is knowing when to cut your losses and get out. Do we have that great leadership now? Or will we continue to be the fools rushing in where angels fear to tread? PATRICK J. MARSTALL Emporia, Kans...
...they say at Disney, the park is the ride. It's a pleasure to browse in this imaginary Anytown; each quiet corner is art-directed with meticulous pizazz. Tread carefully on the elevated rope "netwalk"--a sort of Swiss Family Wallenda--in the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail. Stop to hear gorgeous spellbinder Nicole Barre spin an Indian fable, How the Rabbit Stole the Sun, in the Ahwahnee Camp Circle. Catch the charming film snippets of Rosie O'Donnell and Colin Mochrie in the Boudin Bakery pavilion. Wander through Paradise Pier, where you will find Wolfgang Puck's to-diet...
...result is that defenders of Harvard Square have had to tread a fine line...