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...Many of us are so addicted to instant messaging or updating our Facebook albums that it can be hard to tear ourselves away from our precious technology long enough to spend time with real people. The enormous growth in membership in time-consuming online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life is indicative of this problem—Second Life alone has 1.3 million users who log in per month. Many live in this virtual reality, paying real money for brand-name products or even marrying other characters within the game...
...Europe's most devastating terror plots - bomb attacks on "an unimaginable scale" in several major cities. Eighteen months later, on April 22, four young men - three Germans and one Turkish national - are going on trial in Dusseldorf, charged with conspiring to commit murder, plotting to launch explosive attacks and membership of a terrorist organization, the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU). With over 200 witnesses, the trial is scheduled to last up to two years...
...your left, from which you may reclaim your belongings for a mere $25 service fee. Thank you very much. We hope you have enjoyed your glimpse of our values, the quality of service and New England virtue we strive to embody. Incidentally, have we mentioned our reduced membership fee for students? Good evening sirs, mademoiselles. Good evening. We hope to see you again soon. Jessica A. Sequeira ’11, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House...
After the entrance area, an immediate turn to the right will bring you to the Main Dining Room, where a reservation is key—but these can be made online with no inquiries as to membership status or Harvard affiliation. After a few questions about the reasons for being there, FlyBy was directed to this area to wait to be seated. All staff members were very polite, but FlyBy still felt some skepticism under there. Jeans and backpacks, while standard college student attire, are not included in the dress code at the Faculty Club. Take note...
...administrators were right, at least initially. Membership fell once the fraternities were no longer listed in CU directories and the school stopped handing over free address lists of incoming freshmen. At the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, membership dropped to 24 members in 2005. "No one saw the half-page ad the fraternities placed in the college newspaper," says Stine. "That's where Facebook, MySpace and e-mail entered the picture...