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...your closest buddies, now is the time. Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (Infogrames/Atari; $49.99) has just been released for the Nintendo GameCube, and perfectly preserves the rubber-suited spirit of its 1954 cinematic predecessor. The plot--alien invaders have unleashed the inhabitants of Monster Island upon major urban centers--is dispensed with in a handful of campy cut scenes, taking players straight into a series of titanic dustups between 11 old-school monsters, including no fewer than three versions of the giant reptile himself. Never has a fighting game been this outrageously over-the-top. You get to stomp...
...North Korea is building nuclear weapons [WORLD, Oct. 28] demands a reappraisal of U.S. government priorities. Surely the economy comes first, then homeland security, nuclear arms in North Korea and bioweapons in Iraq. It is irrational to consider Iraq more dangerous than the rogue state of North Korea or urban terrorism. Let's get to work on matters that affect Americans. As for Iraq, we should treat it as we have been treating Saudi Arabia: buy its oil and protect it from aggression by competing nations. JOHN O'MARA BOCKRIS College Station, Texas
Schlanger also said that some states, including Massachusetts, impose more stringent penalties for dealing drugs near schools—and that such laws affect mostly minorities, since a larger percentage of minorities live in urban areas, and thus near schools, than whites...
Unfortunately, not all country mice have learned their lesson about the dangers of urban life. With the onset of cool weather, mice have scampered from their bucolic country holes into Lowell House, where their presence has ignited a round of panicked posts to the House e-mail list. While preliminary reports of wildebeest and Tasmanian devil sightings have been unsubstantiated, concerns about the mouse infestation seem valid. How better, for instance, to explain the mysterious lack of food in Lowell dining hall...
...Freedom,” the second track, introduced by the 53-second first track “This is,” is a complex rap about how freedom relates to the people of the whole world. The album goes on to tell dark stories of urban passions gone sour and discuss such topics as black-on-black persecution...