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Although shutting down inefficient and high-polluting companies may hurt them and their employees, it will in the long run benefit all Americans. Improvements in automobile and factory emissions during the 1990s helped counties in the San Francisco Bay area to cut the risk of cancer from air quality in half, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The risk of cancer from polluted air was reduced over the course of eight years from 356 in 1 million to 186 in 1 million. Similar improvements on a national level would lead to comparable reductions in cancer risks. Thus, higher costs...
...ocean away, other intelligence officials were playing the tape to some of the several hundred lesser-ranking al-Qaeda detainees held in pens at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And the reaction they got was even scarier: a senior U.S. official told TIME that detainees said some passages could be a call to action. That interpretation, along with reports from informants and intercepted communications flooding CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., sent waves of anxiety through the intelligence community...
...distinguish it from the thousands of bed-and-breakfast inns. For those who insist on a 21st century association with the word Vikings, he's also created a football-theme room complete with AstroTurf, lockers from the Minnesota team's practice facilities and a urinal with a Green Bay Packers emblem...
...founding father of this brave new world is an affable, bespectacled, 42-year-old polymath named Will Wright. In 1981, after five years of bouncing around three colleges without graduating, Wright decided to try his hand at writing a computer game. He called it Raid on Bungeling Bay. "It was basically a pretty stupid fly-around-in-a-helicopter-and-shoot-people game," he admits. The object was to fly over various islands and bomb them back to the Stone Age. But Wright became fascinated with these tiny islands. He found himself spending hours giving each one a detailed, working...
...time, the attraction was not readily apparent to many people. After Bungeling Bay, Wright cooked up a game he called SimCity, in which players took on the role of mayor of a complex, realistic miniature metropolis, complete with crime, garbage trucks, power plants and a temperamental populace. SimCity was a complex system that required constant, careful tweaking to keep it in equilibrium. This activity doesn't instantly register as "fun"--in fact, at first blush it sounds suspiciously similar to "work." When he showed it to publishers, they said, "But how do you win? There's no win-lose...