There's a new Civilization III Developer Update on the game's official website titled "Wonders and Small Wonders" penned by Dan Magaha of Firaxis Games. The article describes how the popular Wonders of the World aspect of the original Civ is being expanded upon in the latest installment in the series as they are now going to have both Great Wonders (similar to those in the original, like The Great Wall) and Small Wonders (things like Wall Street and Drive-Thru Fast Food). The update describes the differences in the two kinds of wonders, going into the conditions required to create them, and what side effects they will cause. On a related subject, In Historical Games, Truth Gives Way to Entertainment NY Times free registration required talks with Sid Meier, the father of Civilization (in the computer gaming sense, at least) about development of the original Civilization and the way realism must sometimes take a back seat to fun when creating a strategy game.