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...networking. In April market-research firm Gartner predicted that by the end of 2011, 80% of active Internet users will have some sort of presence in a virtual world, with Second Life currently one of the most populous. Business Week last fall put on the cover a real estate agent whose virtual land deals made her the first person to earn $1 million through the site, and TIME included Second Life creator Philip Rosedale in this year's list of the world's 100 most influential people. Even NBA commissioner David Stern now has a Second Life avatar, although...
...assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has come to Tangier to - I forget the whats and whys, and, honestly, The Bourne Ultimatum doesn't much care either - but he's trying to find his lone ally, government agent Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) before she's caught and killed by rival hitman Dash (Joey Ansah). While a police posse is chasing Bourne, he's hopscotching across rooftops, wrapping a sheet around his hand to vault over a wall with shards of glass on it, and somehow keeping track of the elusive Nicky in a big, unfamiliar city. Maybe our super...
...thinking man's spy series. Certainly they were darker, grimier, than the old James Bond films and their glitzy clones. (The latest Bond, Casino Royale, took some cues from the Bournes: made the hero more brutal, gave the visual a hint of grit.) But the notion of an amnesiac agent, a spy with no past, born into a web of intrigue, search for his true identity, is not automatically Oedipus Rex. Bourne, who needs no sleep or food or pee breaks, no downtime at all, he's closer to the Terminator, a national-security murder machine. Or, to give Bourne...
...Libyan victims of HIV infection, and also landed Tripoli diplomatic and commercial rewards that include the construction of a nuclear power plant. Even worse, French daily Le Monde reports that deal also involved French promises to sell $100 million in arms to Libya, and a pledge that a Libyan agent serving prison time in the U.K. for his involvement in the Lockerbie bombing would be transferred to Tripoli, where he would likely be released. The governments of France and Britain denied those allegations, but less than 48 hours after the Le Monde report, Libya unilaterally announced it had indeed signed...
White says the Iraqi government is "scared about admitting that there are Jews there," for fear of Muslim response in the region. For similar reasons, he says that no Jewish organization could provide them with direct aid, although indirect help through a non-Jewish agent might be possible...