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Nintendo last week began taking bets on how many kids are going to win that argument. At the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, the purveyor of the world's most successful electronic-game system unveiled its long-awaited successor: a gray plastic book-size box called the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. When it becomes available in September, Super NES will cost $199.95 (twice the price of the old NES) for the basic game machine, two hand-held controllers, the latest Super Mario Bros. adventure and a $50 coupon for another game. The machine will also be backed...
Besides improving the food in the dining hall, Berry has also been campus environmentalists' best friend this year, promising to replace disposable cups in the Union next year with permanent glass and plastic. Cereal, too, will be served in large containers to reduce cardboard waste. And Berry is planning to institute a comprehensive recycling program next year, beginning with a test run in the Union...
...drive through a vicious thunder storm for four straight hours," Buxeda says. "We tried to improvise but gave up after having to stop 10 times when our [plastic bag taped to the window] kept peeling off. And I was afraid that we would get struck by lightning, but all that happened was that we got extremely...
...Tibetan Book of the Dead have permeated the collective unconscious of fortysomething producers forced to face mortality through the death of their parents and the tragic toll of colleagues who have died of AIDS. "Death is the great leveler," says Josh Baran, a former Zen teacher turned publicist. "Your plastic surgeon, lawyer, trainer and agent can't save you. Thus, it has to be confronted. These movies are an ego trip. Hollywood wants to remain forever young, and what better way than to extend yourself into another life...
...dozen feet into the photographers' compound, where it was later discovered with face intact. As investigators reconstructed the crime, she had worn a brace of the kind usually associated with victims of back pain. But the girdle seems to have packed three to five sticks of cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, a powerful plastic explosive commonly used for demolition work...