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...Exchange that Linden Lab operates through PayPal. Such singular concern for profit does not make Second Life a good teaching tool, even though companies have claimed to use it as such. In an effort to teach young people how to manage money, Wells Fargo & Co. created an amusement park island on Second Life in 2005 where users could withdraw money from ATMs. Underlying this supposedly instructive intent, was, of course, Wells Fargo product placement. Overemphasis on profit and self-interest is indicative of larger problems in Second Life...
...bullpen is also bolstered by junior Max Warren and rookie Dan Zailskas, who have come up big in spot starts and relief stints. Warren has not allowed a run in eight innings pitched, while Zailskas posted a solid six-inning effort in a road win against Rhode Island last Tuesday...
...task of hosting the fourth edition of the Central Series, held on a Saturday characterized by cold conditions. Harvard took sixth-place in the event, which was won by Salve Regina. MIT took second place, followed by the University of Rhode Island and two Tufts teams...
...tucked into lanes and alleys amid the high-rises, each offering its own brand of salvation. Pray for fair judgment in the afterlife at the City God Temple, where two giant abacuses tally good deeds versus bad, or plead for high exam scores at the Confucius Temple, the island's oldest. Festivals celebrating temple gods' birthdays are several-day affairs here, their likenesses paraded through the streets on palanquins, urged on by a great racket. "There's a temple to meet every need. We can solve all your problems," local campus radio-station manager Tsai Tzong-lin assures me, without...
...SSNE got me thinking. If New England really hates America so much, it should just leave. Honestly, I think America could live without Connecticut, Rhode Island (not actually an island), Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. It is rather unfortunate Maine would have to go—they seem pleasant—but as a nation, we could recover...