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Since IMD took control of the property this fall, the current tenants have remained only through signing individual one-month extensions...
...where they build their house, whom they live with, how nice they are, how often they brush their teeth. I decide when they eat, where they work and whom they love. Like elaborate humanoid Tamagotchis, the Sims' needs (like food, hygiene, comfort and fun) pop up on a little control panel on the bottom of the screen. Ignore the warning signs, and you'd better be prepared for trouble. "They're like human guinea pigs," says Wright. "It makes you realize how much of your own life is a strategy game...
MEDIA WHIRLPOOL As if a Jacuzzi weren't relaxing enough, now you can numb your brain as well as your body. The new Affinity Whirlpool comes with a built-in 9-in. TV, a wall-mounted CD-and-stereo system, and a floating remote control that runs the water jets, TV and stereo. The whole system will set you back $7,900. We're still waiting for Jacuzzi www.jacuzzi.com to strike a deal with WebTV to let you surf the Net while...
This lame duck just keeps on quacking. And now that President Clinton has delivered an ambitious budget proposal, the Republican-controlled Congress has to decide how far to put its foot down - and how much to risk alienating an electorate about to go to the polls to pick a new commander in chief. It was all there Monday morning - Clinton, chart at his back and Magic Marker in hand, announcing a host of Great Society-esque initiatives, including generous spending on education and health benefits for the poor. "Election years are the best time for a president...
...have claimed to be following NATO's Kosovo playbook in Chechnya, but its "liberation" of Grozny appears more in line with General William Westmoreland's Vietnam War dictum of destroying a village in order to save it. Acting president Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that Russian forces were in full control of the capital, and had managed to find an administrative building still standing amid the rubble on which to hoist the Russian flag. But with the bulk of the city's two to three thousand Chechen defenders having broken through Russian lines - at a considerable cost in casualties - and made...