How is it possible for every planner in the Pentagon to be on board with a fashionable vision of future warfare, and four years later for the whole concept to be really most sincerely dead (to quote the coroner of Munchkinland)?

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"When you develop things for a 3-year old, you've got to be drop-dead simple and really smooth to use, " Bauer said.

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Still, I've learned over the years not to dismiss something that doesn't immediately win me over. (In fact, when I think something is really out of style like I wouldn't be caught dead wearing it that's probably when it's just about to hit the runways.) After all, isn't that a good designer's job?

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What really caught my eye was that the world was going to be bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto IV combined.

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And they must be really active in Argentina (despite its nationalized oil companies), where environment ties for dead last among the eight issues, and only 5.9 per cent of the respondents ranked it as the most important environmental problem. (Weirdly enough, it ranks absolute lowest in Israel).

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