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...stand video games? Then you may be on your way??to becoming a top game designer. That, at least, is the counterintuitive experience of Keita Takahashi, the Japanese creator of the offbeat international hit known as Katamari Damacy. The addictive game involves a cosmic prince rolling a sticky ball around a colorful landscape filled with things to pick up; it looks like manga meets Monty Python and sounds like Hello Kitty does hip-hop, and that has everything to do with the creator's inexperience. "I don't play games," he insists. "There are too many unoriginal ones...
...disrupt a culture famous for both its antiquity and its insularity. As it has tried to yank itself into modernity while preserving its respect for history, to sustain simultaneously its dedication to progress and its devotion to the past, Deng's China?like contemporary Japan in its very different way???has often lost its balance...
...usually does, treat his black workers with kindness. Yet there is never a sense that the black is, or even could be, his equal; in the common view, the black is a child of God who needs to be guided to civilization by the one who knows the way???the Afrikaner...
...Brown was helping to win the peace in his own way???as an assistant to Edward Teller, a leader in the development of the H-bomb, at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. In the next few years, Brown not only worked on the H-bomb but also helped design the first Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile, originated the Project Plowshare plan for peaceful uses of atomic energy, and served as the senior U.S. adviser at nuclear test-ban negotiations with the Soviet Union. Recalls an associate: "He was intense, bright, driving and dynamic, but neither patient nor comfortable...
...living repository of oral history who sat him down in the tiny village of Juffure and recited for him the centuries-old saga of his West African clan dating back seven generations to the warrior Kunta Kinte. Modern Americans learned about Haley's lineage in much the same way???huddled in a semicircle in their living rooms around that electronic-age griot, the television...