The hottest PC game of the moment, Doom 3 has sold 1 million copies in just two months, to players eager to blast their way through 27 levels of demons, says its Mesquite, Tex. developer, Id Software.

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The hottest PC game of the moment, Doom 3, has sold 1 million copies in just two months, to players eager to blast their way through 27 levels of demons, says its Mesquite, Texas developer, Id Software.

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The haul included film titles such as Kill Bill 1 and 2 and the Doom 3 game.

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His inexplicable inability to recognize the economy as jobs 1 through 100 would likely doom his chances with any normal, thoughtful, mainstream Republican.

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Many times over the past two years (such as Armageddon Fears Are Overblown on June 1, 2012 and Can Doom and Gloom Save the Market? on September 16, 2011), I have made the case that the internal strength of the stock market was signaling that the economy was actually stronger than most thought.

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If you're reading this after midnight on Friday, March 1, the dreaded Beltway hour of doom known as the "sequester" has arrived and the news is that the world has not ended.

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The best hope for the 1% growth figure is that enough people ignore the doom-merchants and get a lift of confidence, remembering that economies do have a strong habit of returning to growth, eventually.

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