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Resistance Is Futile

By SETH SCHIESEL

First came Mario. Now there’s the Wii. Thanks to Nintendo’s mastermind, you may never leave your living room again.

• Video: Hula Hoopers in Action

High-Tech Tools Keep Elderly Safe From Afar

By ELIZABETH OLSON

A small but growing number of people have equipped the homes of aging relatives with motion sensors that can draw attention to signs of an accident or illness.

 

Fossil fuels new discovery
Colorado Springs Gazette - BY BILL REED Colorado Springs has a dinosaur to call its own, a beast that's never been found anywhere else in the world. Scientists planned to announce Saturday at Garden of the Gods that century-old assumptions about a dinosaur skull found in the ...

 

 

 

Seventies fad of kit clothes born again

Nostalgia for homemade clothes is fuelling a resurgence in interest in arts and crafts

 

 

 

Arts & entertainment

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  Battle to sign Europe's sex sensation

  Charlotte Roche's exploration of filth in all its meanings now tops Germany's literary charts

  • Robert McCrum on 10 years that changed books

• Indiana still holds the whip hand

  Philip French's film of the week: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

 

 

A thriller in ten chapters The Observer's literary editor Robert McCrum stood down this month after a decade. And what a tumultuous 10 years A decade in books

 

 

 

The new beats
Britain's poetry scene is alive and kicking, says Anne-Marie Fyfe
More poetry

 

 

 

'Sexist' Obama has lost women's votes

Geraldine Ferraro, the only woman to run on a major party presidential ticket and a Clinton supporter, has accused Obama of conducting a "terribly sexist" campaign.

• 'Hillbilly' hoping to make Obama a winner

• A woman president will be nothing like Hillary

 

 

 

Longest-married couple's 80th anniversary

Frank Milford, 100, and Anita Milford, 99, will celebrate by spending a quiet weekend together - like most days.