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Review: 'Crysis 2' is beautiful, action-packed, glitchyupdated: Tue Mar 22 2011 12:39:00

"Crysis 2" is a beautiful game with lots of action, but is plagued by a glitchy artificial intelligence that can be unintentionally comedic.

People.com: Uncle Leo Diesupdated: Thu Feb 17 2011 14:52:00

The distinctive character actor Len Lesser was 88

Tim Allen: Back on TV in fall 2011?updated: Fri Sep 10 2010 09:59:00

The fall season doesn't officially begin until Sept. 20, but the broadcast networks have already kicked off development for the following September.

5 just-plain-weird video gamesupdated: Wed Sep 08 2010 17:56:00

From turning random household objects into giant balls to stuffing princesses full of cake until they're morbidly obese, the video game industry has no shortage of strange ideas.

Wilma Mankiller's trail of triumphupdated: Thu Apr 08 2010 18:24:00

Remembering Wilma Mankiller, who died this week, isn't hard, because first of all, who can forget a name like that?

The Fareed Challenge: Best of 2009updated: Tue Dec 22 2009 21:07:00

Have you been paying attention to the news? Answer these questions and find out.

1969 Alcatraz takeover 'changed the whole course of history'updated: Fri Nov 20 2009 15:55:00

Alcatraz Island was a chilly, unwelcoming place once reserved for infamous criminals. Not even the federal government appeared to want it after the penitentiary closed in the 1960s.

Obama plans executive order to close Guantanamo Bayupdated: Thu Jan 22 2009 02:14:00

President Barack Obama is planning to issue three executive orders Thursday, including one demanding the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay be closed within a year, according to a senior administration official and a congressional aide.

Kid-friendly exploration in San Franciscoupdated: Mon Oct 13 2008 17:04:00

Adults and kids are hunched over mounds of multicolored clay, fashioning little clay people and assorted creatures that will star in kid-produced animated shorts.

Reporters get first look inside mysterious Supermax prisonupdated: Fri Sep 14 2007 17:15:00

Visiting Supermax, the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," reveals nothing so much as an astonishing and eerie quiet.

Green ships for blue highwaysupdated: Thu Sep 13 2007 07:17:00

Described as "possibly the greatest evolution in boats since the advent of steam," an ingenuously simple concept that combines sun and wind power with sophisticated computer systems is set to transform the future of navigation.

Review: 'Flight Simulator X' soars to storesupdated: Fri Oct 13 2006 13:17:00

Bored with slashing orcs, carjacking vehicles or rotating puzzle pieces? Climb into a different gaming entertainment experience with "Flight Simulator X," the latest in the best-selling, 25-year-old franchise.

Fortune: Northwest: Alcatraz of the Air!updated: Mon Feb 15 1999 00:01:00

On Jan. 3, Northwest Airlines kept thousands of passengers trapped on planes--some for eight hours or more--at Detroit Metropolitan Airport while waiting for snow to be cleared from the gates. A fe...

Fortune: MORE BETTER PRISONSupdated: Mon Dec 17 1990 00:01:00

Housing starts in the U.S. may be at an eight-year low, but the prison- building business is booming. With more than a million convicts crammed into facilities designed for 800,000, some 140 prison...

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