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This game (for PC; $54.99) was five years in the making, and every minute appears to have been well spent. The graphics and physics of how objects move in Half-Life 2's world are by far the most realistic ever to grace a computer screen. As you wander the streets of City 17, the alien-controlled police state your character Gordon Freeman is attempting to subvert, you have to rub your eyes to realize you're not actually visiting an East European capital. And check out the mayhem you can cause with Gordon's gravity gun, which sucks...
...look at where LCD-TV prices are headed, wander over to the PC side of your neighborhood electronics store and check out the flat computer monitors. You'll probably find that small LCD TVs are marked up 50% or more, compared with monitors of the same size. LCD TVs often have brighter screens and niftier designs that add to the cost of making them, but the real reason the TVs are more expensive is low volume. With fewer TV sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens...
...student it’s almost part of the education to find out how to have a ‘fun, free’ night. You can always grab some grub at Loker Commons’ study break and then have a movie night in your dorm. You can wander over to the upper class parties to dance and have fun, and then chill into the late hours of the night at a friend’s dorm, talking about politics and other random stuff,” says Gupta...
...student it’s almost part of the education to find out how to have a ‘fun, free’ night. You can always grab some grub at Loker Commons’ study break and then have a movie night in your dorm. You can wander over to the upper class parties to dance and have fun, and then chill into the late hours of the night at a friend’s dorm, talking about politics and other random stuff,” says Gupta...
Thile, the one-time teenage wunderkind mandolinist and current driving force behind progressive pop-newgrass group Nickel Creek, is almost certainly the most virtuosic mandolinist in the entire modern American roots scene, earning comparisons to David Grisman and other similarly luminary pickers. Especially on Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Thile’s 2001 solo album made with the help of such respected musicians as Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas, listeners were captivated by the mesmeric and natural quality of the tracks. However, Thile’s greatest strength—his mandolin chops—are far less...