An Empire Strykes Back
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Stryker reports a quarter of double-digit growth in both revenue and earnings.
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The question used to be &quot;Who lost Russia?&quot; In a few years, it may be &quot;Who rebuilt the Soviet empire?&quot;. Ukraine&#39;s presidential election on Sunday could determine whether Russia remains a national state or begins to resurrect its empire.
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Star Fleet Capt. Jean-Luc Picard commanded it. Now some Trekkie owns it.
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It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" Â a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth Â faces the ax.
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The latest regime of George Steinbrenner&#39;s Evil Empire has picked a perfect time to prove just how all conquering it can be. By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY.
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Far Colony is a game of exploration and space colonization being held with 23th century. The game is based on management, strategy and planning in the more or less long term, where the use of the military force is not an obligatory way.   This new release include contains all the updates from 2007-August-11 to 2007-August-19. It's mainly bugfixes, data structures updates, some text corrections and updates, update of the options panel and update of the Orbital Object Data Interface.   It's the last release without game modules and routines, all the next releases will have ones (it's the time !!) ;)
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The authors of Empire, the It book of postmodern philosophy, have a new plan to save the world
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The Kremlin's strategy is beginning to take shape.
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Despite the return of its founder, improvement will take time.
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A NEW era of political dominance awaits John Howard when he gets back to business today. The Prime Minister will outline a fourth-term agenda knowing he is within striking distance of a majority in the Senate.
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Rows over diplomatic and business issues are roiling a longstanding alliance at an uncertain juncture.
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The Cathedral of Commerce once again is living up to its nickname.
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History looks primed to repeat itself.
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There's the rich and the poor, but in any case, growth is back.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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And a nation of immigrants rediscovers the world.
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Movies, music, and more are part of Six Flags' investment in Dick Clark's empire.