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...Radhys lived almost anywhere else in the world, they would enjoy the easy lifestyle of well-to-do professionals. But here in post--Saddam Hussein Iraq, nothing is normal for any family in any neighborhood. For the well off and well educated, the past year has been a shocking plunge into the abyss. The rules of civil society have broken down just as badly as the country's power grid. Assault, robbery, rape, kidnapping, suicide bombing, carjacking and street battles are now commonplace. Baghdadis live in permanent fear, locked for safety behind high walls and guarded gates in dreary isolation...
...Outside the Lines,” was doing on video games licensed by different leagues. In particular, they highlighted NFL Blitz, which allows a person playing to the game to hit and jump on an opponent after he has been already tackled, an activity not allowed in the normal rules of football...
...want PlanetTran to compete on a level playing field with normal Cambridge taxis. [Hybrid taxis] are highly desirable to the community,” said Riney...
...fucked at the same time, don’t you?”—and then going to dinner with my boyfriend’s family at a lovely Italian restaurant was like having emotional jet-lag. My life was now divided in two, one half normal and bourgeois, the other entirely invested in the drama unfolding in court: Ariane on one end, Saul on the other, along with the smooth-talking defense lawyer and the solemn district attorney...
...there. Doom 3 runs on all-new technology, and let's not mince words: there has never been a game that looks this good. I'm not sure what does it - the highly detailed textures, the fancy colored light and shadow-play, the all-new physics models, the "normal mapping" (whatever that is) - but id has created a virtual environment that's more compelling and immersive and realistic than really seems possible. Get up close to one of the demons and look at his skin: it gleams with a dull, matte, scaly sheen that's disturbingly lifelike. Warning: staring...