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...which licensed Scrabble from Hasbro, launched a beta version of the classic board game last week. But most fans hated it and complained about the time-consuming animations that every move triggered. Within hours of Wordscraper's going up Wednesday night, hundreds of people began installing the game as word spread across the social network...
...surprisingly, though, the pace relaxes when Carr reaches his recovery stage; by that point, familiar with the major players and milestones in his life, the reader can relax too. And if he lapses into clichés on occasion (he adores his daughters "madly, deeply, truly"), at other times his word choice attains a chilling precision, as when he describes the two girls on the date of their premature birth: "They weighed a bit more than a kilo, a term of art in our current context." Carr and the girls' mother had used crack during her pregnancy--he had just handed...
Some Beijingers have opted to leave town on what's jokingly called a biyuntao--"avoid Olympics package"--which rhymes with the Chinese word for condom. Others, including huge numbers of migrant workers, have been forced out. A group of builders from Sichuan who lived in our courtyard while refurbishing the neighborhood left recently, taking their coal cooking stove and pet kitten with them. A few blocks away, restaurant owner Liu Ruilin complains that some of his best customers are gone. "I thought the Olympics were going to be good for business," he says. "But lots of outsiders are leaving...
...word-title, 30-word-subtitle book market appears to have been locked up by former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris and writing partner Eileen McGann. A follow-up to their 2007 best seller, Outrage--which detailed how lots of people and groups, from the U.N. to Big Tobacco, "are ripping us off"--Fleeced details how lots of people and groups "are scamming us." The guilty parties this time around include Barack Obama, lobbyists and teachers' unions. But while this pin-the-tail-on-the-grievance approach might make for a striking dust jacket, it results in a disjointed book...
...never anticipated such a severe reaction to the word beer," says Jag Jaegar, co-owner of JV Games, which released Pong Toss on July 28 with a kid-friendly rating of E for Everyone...