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Any computer gamer old enough to remember floppy disks probably paid at least a fleeting visit to SimCity, the legendary franchise that let players build -- and destroy -- the metropolises of their imaginations. After passing through half a dozen incarnations in the two decades since its debut, the game is back, and its creator, Maxis Studios, says that this time, it's putting more than bricks and mortar into the mix

When the ensemble of cesium beam and hydrogen maser atomic clocks strike 11:11 today at Boulder’s National Institute of Standards and Time nothing will happen. Never mind the fact that the numbers are both binary and identical and that the square of any cluster of 1′s is going to be palindromic as well.

The sun resembles a fiery peach as it rises over the Zambezi River at 6 am. Fish eagles fly overhead and elephants graze on a distant riverbank while I set out by pontoon in search of the legendary tigerfish, one of angling’s greatest prizes.