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Sneaky tricks! Workarounds! Creative rule-bending! The August 2013 issue of WIRED has BILL HADER and tons of info to outwit the chumps and get what YOU want. PLUS: Inside Neill Blomkamp's incredible new movie Elysium, an eye melting visual guide to Comic-Con Cosplay, and the low down on how to load a massive container ship.

The final spots and the coaching staffs on the East and West 2013 Frontier League All-Star rosters have been announced for the July 17 game. The final spots on each team were chosen by the field managers for the game. The Washington Wild Things and CONSOL Energy Park will be the host of the 2013 All-Star Game Presented by 84 Lumber.

A decade ago, my wife and I built an absurdly ambitious garden that involved homemade fencing, a bamboo-and-string trellis for the beans and, for me, about 10 backbreaking hours behind a tiller. Knee and elbow surgeries killed what little enthusiasm I had for digging and kneeling, so I limit my harvesting activities to the produce aisle. Barbara Pleasant, a gardening author and contributing editor to Mother Earth News; Pam Ruch, who managed the test gardens for Organic Gardening magazine; and Bruce Butterfield... Читать дальше...

Although it has been studied intensely by political scientists, the relationship between public opinion and U.S. foreign policy remains murky. Today, pundits argue about whether an "Iraq syndrome" among the public is inhibiting the Obama administration from going to war with Syria. Public anxiety about the debt and deficit has led to increased support for cutting military spending. In this context, a growing number of scholars and academics are calling for Washington to adopt a grand strategy of restraint. Читать дальше...

Like we weren’t going to notice, Zynga? Turning Words With Friends into a board game does not make it not-Scrabble. Same goes for Hungry Hungry Herd. Angry Nerd takes a stand against the shameless genre crossing of digital games back to board games.

Like we weren’t going to notice, Zynga? Turning Words With Friends into a board game does not make it not-Scrabble. Same goes for Hungry Hungry Herd. Angry Nerd takes a stand against the shameless genre crossing of digital games back to board games.

Nearly 120 years after the Dreyfus Affair shook the world, you would think we know all there is to know about the seminal case involving a French Jewish officer falsely accused of treason. Alfred Dreyfus was found guilty and deported to prison on a small, remote island, and it was only after his family, joined […]