Word: virtually
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Anyone who writes music for songs with titles like This Is the Moment and Once Upon a Dream is hardly likely to be a gloomy Gus. But Frank Wildhorn just may be Broadway's most happy fella. A virtual unknown on the Great White Way nine months ago, he is the composer of two musicals, Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel, which have survived mostly scathing reviews to become box-office successes. A self-described "blue-collar professional songwriter" who has supplied material for the likes of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston, he now has enough theater projects to keep...
Sure, you may not be able to spring for an in-home virtual reality set, or one of IBM's new Internet-enabled minivans, but there is a treasure of affordable hi-tech gizmos, hardware and software on the market this year...
...developed a caste-like system which has sucked the excitement out of our nation's pastime. Teams with small checkbooks can no longer compete for championships, since they are easily squashed by evil empires such as the Yankees and the Braves. Because of their vast financial resources, these virtual all-star teams will always be top contenders for the World Series crown, while teams from cities such as Montreal and Minneanapolis will never be able to afford a contending team. Sure, teams such as the Marlins may occasionally incur great financial hardship to give themselves one desperate shot...
...situation has become so dire that many of the poorer teams have become virtual minor league franchises. Whenever a young player for a small market club becomes a star, the team must trade him before his contract expires because it cannot afford to resign...
...stumble across her. Mauldin, meantime, graduated from bots to spiders. A researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, he designed Lycos, one of the first search engines on the Web. But Julia remained his first love. And earlier this year he started a company in Pittsburgh, Pa., called Virtual Personalities Inc., that will transplant Julia's artificial intelligence into other onscreen beings. He wants to build online games that even girls will play. "Boys like video games because they can shoot things," says Mauldin. "Girls want games they can talk to." To that end, Mauldin this month is releasing a free, downloadable...