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...quests, and Abaraoha is no exception. What’s different, however, is that her guild isn’t a digital coalition with no real-world interaction; it’s a group of four real-life friends from Harvard. MMORPGs it seems can be a bit like instant messenger, but with adventurous quests and economic activity thrown in for good measure. “While we’re playing, we’ll just, like, chat,” she says.MMORPGs have been known in some cases to take over gamers’ lives, keeping them locked...
Caitlin and Vix become instant friends, signing a “Never Be Ordinary” pact, and thus ensuring from the start that the book will never be boring. They go back each summer to the Vineyard, where Caitlin strings Vix along. Caitlin is manipulative, but ultimately she needs Vix as a rock to ground her own manic moods. For Vix, Caitlin is like a drug; dangerous yet incredibly tempting, one snort and Vix is hooked yet again...
...suggesting that the real problem is lack of non-final clubs parties on campus, your piece trivializes the fundamental inequalities that women face at Harvard. From the instant we arrive on the campus, we are confronted with reminders of our “visitor” status, from the lack of tenured female professors in the classroom to the lack of depictions of women among the portraits and statuary adorning the hallowed halls. The entire history of women at Harvard and Radcliffe is marked by separation, inequality of resources, and reluctance on the part of male-dominated Harvard to adequately...
...billion ringtone industry. In fact, at $1.50 a pop, ringtones are like "found money" for both parties, says music-industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. "Neither has to do a whole lot of work - just license, sit back and count the money rolling in." Some of that instant cash may find its way to FON, an ambitious new global wi-fi network. Skype, along with Google and others, will invest $22 million in the Spanish start-up, which plans to have more than 1 million hot spots by 2010. Subscribers will pay less than $2 a day to have...
...Some of that instant cash may find its way to FON, an ambitious new global wi-fi network. Skype, along with Google and others, will invest $22 million in the Spanish start-up, which plans to have more than 1 million hot spots by 2010. Subscribers will pay less than $2 a day to have guaranteed wireless access wherever they roam. More than 3,000 people have signed up since the beta version launched in November. "It's a dream come true," FON founder Martin Varsavsky says of his new partners, although he demurs on the specific roles Google...