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...study in last week's Nature suggests--sorry, parents--that Grand Theft Auto III, left, Counter-Strike and other video games that require players to shoot bad guys and slay monsters may improve the kind of visual skills needed for, say, driving a car or even being a soldier. In the study, men 18 to 23 were tested for their ability to identify flashing cues, switch their attention rapidly and count objects approaching from many directions. The result: gamers performed up to 50% better than nonplayers, a finding that researchers suspect applies to younger kids as well. To rule...
...nearly enough police to make a difference, and some of the few in uniform aren't even the real thing. The Iraqi Red Crescent learned that lesson when thieves posing as traffic cops held up one of the organization's workers and made off with his car. Automobile theft has become such a recurring problem that the relief organization CARE has ordered workers to use taxis to get around the city. "We half expected the police force to still be functional, but they were not," Army Major General Buford Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said last week. Although...
...doctors described as a would-be carjacker, knifed in the lung. Nearby moaned a man with a bandaged right hand he claimed was hurt when he tried to stop a thief. A third patient, writhing on a bed, had taken a bullet in the kidney after escaping a botched theft, hospital aides said. The doctors in the emergency room face a painful dilemma: many who come to be saved are routinely threatening others' lives. Among them are surely some of the thousands of common criminals set free by Saddam's 11th-hour amnesty. "They've misused their freedom," said...
...changed. "The semiconductor industry will not succeed in achieving the growth rates observed in the past just with faster processors and more money," he says. The key now is finding new applications for chips, such as RFID tags - chips that send signals to scanners to clock inventory and prevent theft - or by adding new audiovisual features to cell phones. The company that masters that will be the first to see the checkered flag...
...after announcing that British artist Harry Kipper had disappeared while bicycling through Europe; Kipper turned out not to exist. Later that year they hijacked a Rome bus to hold a "rave" on board; 18 were arrested though most were later released. And they claimed responsibility for the 1999 theft of four religious statues from churches in southern Italy, demanding that the hierarchy give $53,000 to the poor. The ransom was never paid, the statues never returned. Given that taste for direct action, it's a wonder the Blissett Project's four founders - Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi...