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Grandma and Grandpa on the video game...never happens. The OL (Office Lady) hurrying home to play saber tea party...again, an unlikely scenario. Well, nothing lasts forever...cherry blossoms last only about a week, and that is what the Japanese like the most about them. Nothing lasts forever, especially beauty. There must be more to a person's worth than outside appearance. Companies change, too...or they should change. Last year, the video-game software and hardware industry brought in about $27 billion. For the past five years, Nintendo has been asking the question, "Why do people who don't play video games NOT play them?"...

David Attenborough is 80 in May, but he has been such a steady, visible presence in our lives .............................. .................................................... It is a brusqueness reflected in his views about the natural world. Attenborough refers to the "irrational romanticism" which dominates so much natural history coverage, including, he suggests, the films March of the Penguins and Born Free. "I mean, Elsa the lioness is a story which is entirely based on violence. George Adamson shot Elsa's mother in the first place; they sustained the cub by killing antelope themselves and giving her half-dead antelope so that she could toy with them...