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13 September 2002
Filed under:Current Affairs (World) at9:39 am

When in summer the US simulated an attack on a militarily powerful middle eastern regime, it lost. Oops!

Filed under:Computer Games at12:00 am

The New York Times discovers that (how extraordinary!) “78 percent of unaccompanied customers 13 to 16 who tried to buy M-rated [violent “17 years or older”] games succeeded” and seven year olds are playing Counterstrike in the cybercafes of America… Perhaps they need to follow the lead of the Greeks and make cybercafes illegal?