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...Here's how it works. You join FarmVille, a game on Facebook in which you can create a virtual farm by growing crops and livestock and tilling the earth. Through your toil, you earn virtual money, but to farm more efficiently or quickly, you can also invest real cash (through PayPal or a credit card) to buy virtual goods, such as seed or a tractor. Should you not have any real cash to spare on things that after all do not actually exist, you can instead accept an offer from one of the advertisers on the game site...
...might be just as well to earn virtual cash the old-fashioned way: by playing...
Harvard would tie the score minutes later, this time in a more traditional manner. A string of crisp passes put the ball in the UNH semi-circle, where Harvard was able to earn its first penalty corner of the game...
...does hope to play the main event every year, especially if he can get the $10,000 entry fee paid - as he did this year - by winning a local league in his hometown of Chappaqua, N.Y. (Disclosure: I am in that league.) Not only does winning the league earn him the entry fee; it gets him a guaranteed rooting section as well. The league winner must enter a high-stakes tournament and pay the league members 20% of any spoils...
...Crimson women also braved difficulties to earn fourth over the weekend. The B boat—skippered by sophomore Emily Lambert and crewed by classmate Alexandra Jumper—shined for Harvard, suffering only one poor race over eight attempts. The boat failed to finish in its second contest, but went on to post sixth or better among the 16-team field in all other races—good enough for 40 points and third overall...