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Life in this Simerica has a dreamlike quality: the elements are familiar but scrambled. In a typical session you may walk into a stranger's home in the middle of the night, grab a shower in the bathroom (never mind that his wife is using the toilet), practice the piano for a while, then start making and selling pizzas out of your host's kitchen. In the trial beta version of the game, which currently has around 35,000 participants, Wright plays a Sim who is the proprietor of a lounge located in a submarine. It's called Das Love...
...Toronto Stock Exchange may be dwarfed by the Big Board, but it's certainly faster on its feet. Stymiest, 45, CEO of TSX Group (which owns the exchange), is taking her firm public. A former investment banker, she plans to introduce U.S.-dollar-denominated trading next year to grab back a share of Canadian-stock trades made in the U.S. TSX revenues jumped 26% to U.S. $105 million in the first nine months of this year...
...less-receptive consumer add another complication: cut-throat competition. In an effort to grab market share, China Mobile and China Unicom are already circumventing government price regulations through handset subsidies and other backdoor give-backs. According to CSFB analysts, China Unicom even appears to be cannibalizing its existing customer base of GSM subscribers because of incentives designed to attract users to its new high-speed wireless network, based on a transmission technology called CDMA...
...Quick, grab your program. Flip to the page with the rosters. You want to know who’s providing you with this moment, because right now you have no idea. It isn’t any of the numbers you’ve got memorized—it’s not 16 or 19 or 22 or 72—and nothing about the player on the field before you seems particularly distinctive...
...perhaps the biggest play of the game, Fitzpatrick made a long distance connection to Morris. The ball sailed out of Fitzpatrick’s hand at Harvard’s own 42 and Morris gained just enough separation from the Yale defender to grab the spiral in stride...