The organization, Allied Veterans of the World, runs nearly 50 Internet parlors with computerized slot machine-style games, which are normally legal in Florida if most of the proceeds go to charity.

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The machine itself ships with a couple of good games, the AppleWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) word-processing and spreadsheet package, some graphics software, both the Microsoft and Netscape Web browsers, and a good e-mail program.

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For games and video, look for a machine with a graphics accelerator.

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Meanwhile, a firm like Microsoft, which grew up in the computer industry, can use the same fusion of technology to enter the consumer-electronics market with a PC which looks like a games machine.

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According to the report, Sony toyed with the idea of dropping the optical drive in favor or making games for the machine download-only over the internet.

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Freestyle snowmobiler Caleb Moore, attempting a backflip with his snowmobile at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, couldn't rotate his machine enough to land the maneuver.

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