European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 13 Nintendo plays wow Factor with input devices for Wii Sony goes after hardcore gamers with new releases by Brian Bowers stars and stripes Santa if its All about Nintendo in the Drivers seat for the second year in a Nintendo wowed game reviewers with new input devices for its Wii game the wins to Tio sensitive Remote and nun Chuck stole the show at last years electronic entertainment at the e3 Media and business Summit on Nintendo unveiled three new styles of con trollers for the two of the items were essentially mountings for the games Stan Dard controllers a steering wheel that will come with the Mario Kart Wii racing and a tentatively called the during a Handson the Zapper proved to be an effective and fun tool in putting Down the Zombie menace in the upcoming resident evil umbrella the third is a pressure Sensi Tive pad that will be used in Wii which is scheduled to be re leased next a Beeton demo included games that involved heading soccer balls and ski jump the Nintendo press conference also featured fitness experts Demon Strating various exercise when the game hits the stores next it is supposed to include 40 different these As Well As a full lineup of games for the hugely popular Nintendo is handheld system help accomplish the company goal of drawing new gamers into the mar the strategy has been tremendously with 69 percent of recent Industry growth coming from sales of Nintendo but while Nintendo goes after soccer moms and Little old Sony focuses squarely on the hardcore Sony press conference touted upgrades to the powerful play station 3 and improve ments to the playstation portable handheld including the x ability to Hook it up to a to to play games or watch most of the time was spent on an impressive array of games that will Appeal primarily to Young in addition to a Batch of Cross platform titles such As the medieval role playing game assassins the shooter Call of duty 4 modern warfare and the inter Active music game Rock band Sony highlighted a number of impressive ps3 these included sequels to the Sci i study stigma follows fat children new overweight children Are stigmatized by their Peers As Early As age 3 and even face Bias from their parents and youngsters who report bullying and other types of abuse because of their weight Are two to three times More Likely to report suicidal thoughts As Well As to suffer from other health issues such As High blood pressure and eating re searchers the stigmatization directed at obese children by their educators and others is Perva Sive and often researchers with Yale University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa wrote in the july Issue of psychological from the associated press exercise your brain w word Horoscope dear Abby to daily Al american amusement stars stripes Chris Star wars character Che Bacca presents the new Star wars playstation portable player pop to Sony computer entertainment ceo Jack Tretton at the Sony computer entertainment America e3 2007 press event wednesday in Culver shooters unreal kill zone and Metal gear solid and the Gran Turisco racing the crowd was truly impressed with the violent Metal gear solid which included a rather gruesome fight ing scene Between two practically in billable Sony also emphasized its online including downloadable games and its new Home Initia in ps3 owners Cre ate avatars to represent them selves in an online world that works something like a Combina Tion of the alternate reality game second myspace and a gaming none of Sony wares seemed to be truly or Likely to attract those soccer moms who have been pushing Nintendo sales through the email Brian Bowers at  70 years Hunt for Amelia Earhart goes on Earhart by Richard Pyle the associated press new Modem technology can help them solve a 70yearold a group of investigators will search a South Pacific Island to try to determine if famed Avia Tor Amelia Earhart crash land de and died the expedition of 15 members of the International group for historic aircraft re or was set to depart the trip would Mark the groups ninth to an uninhabited atoll about Miles South of once at the 2y2milelong is the group is to spend 17 Days searching for human aircraft parts and any other Evi Dence to try to show that Earhart and her Fred reached the Island on july crashed on a reef at Low tide and made it to where they possibly lived for months As cast written off As lost at the conditions during the search will be with the explorers forced to contend with dense Jungle 100de Gree Sharks that reside in a Lagoon in the Middle of the Island and voracious crabs that make it necessary to Wear shoes at All the Public wants it that Why everybody on the Street 70 years knows the name Amelia said Tighary founder and executive director Ric she is americas favorite missing per at the and were nearing the end of a much publicized round the world flight that had begun More than a month earlier in on july they left new bound for tiny How land Miles to the Only to vanish As they neared their a 16day search by Navy and coast guard ships turned up no sign of the fliers or their twin engine Lockheed despite an official finding that they ran out of Gas and crashed in the the Case spawned a once popular claim that the pair were captured and executed As spies on a japanese held Gillespie acknowledges that some critics regard the Nikuma Roro Castaway theory As far but he says there is Strong evidence to suggest ear Hart and Noonan reached what was then known As Gardner is 350 Miles South of and survived a crash Landing on its wide Flat most sceptics Are not really familiar with the evidence that weve and they usually have a vested interest in the other theories that they crashed at sea or were captured by the Japa he