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In January DigiPen Institute of Technology opened in Redmond, Washington, offering the nation’s first four-year college degree in video-game development at a cost of about $11,000 a year. Forty students enrolled in the first class, but 1,000 applications for the 100 seats in the fall class have already been received. The curriculum emphasizes computer languages and graphics but also includes math, physics, business marketing, and mythology.
Courtroom Antics
In Swindon, England, magistrate Josie Lewis, 45, got into a dispute with a reporter last April, which got worse when he began to take photographs of her. As she was walking away, she mooned him, which the man of course captured on film. In September Lewis’s boss fired her.
In November in Annapolis, Maryland, during a birthday celebration for Gregory Johnson, 32, his cousin Darwin Derwood Coates, 21, tucked a .22-caliber handgun into the waistband of his trousers and accidentally shot himself in the groin. As guests tried to assist Coates, Johnson grabbed the gun and stuck it in the most convenient place he could find, which was the waistband of his own trousers. The gun fired again, striking Johnson in the buttocks. Both men were hospitalized.
