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...Linden won't discuss the merits of pending litigation, it's clear that Second Life's virtual assets have actual value. Linden lets users retain the rights to digital imagery they create on-site, and the result is a thriving economy that's as real as it gets. Attorney Stevan Lieberman made $20,000 last year helping Second Lifers file patents, trademarks and copyrights. And $6.8 million changed hands in June on the site's Lindex, where the exchange rate is about 270 Linden dollars to one U.S. dollar. Congress is looking into whether this commerce should be taxed...
Millions of telecommuters, of course, don't intend to wait for such an outcome. They have already set up quarters wherever they set down their laptops. "Today's office is an aging concept, 150 years old, that people have been hanging on to," argues Stevan Alburty, who runs WorkVirtual, an office-consulting shop. It's only a matter of time, telecommuting true believers claim, before city skyscrapers and suburban office parks are abandoned altogether, left as archaeological curiosities for future generations...
...recycled radicals, the current crop of dissenters is not limited to the usual suspects. It embraces the National Coalition of American Nuns, the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and the Unitarian Universalists Against Apartheid. "You don't normally see students marching with welfare recipients and trade unionists and veterans," says Stevan Kirschbaum, a Boston bus driver and vice president of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8751. "But it's a reflection of both how broad the movement is now and the lessons that everyone's learned from Vietnam...
...businessmen are simply accelerating the downward price pressure. The most striking examples, of course, are in the auto industry, which is now offering rebates of up to $2,000 on some cars to help move the vehicles off dealer lots. But businessmen of all sorts have begun pruning stocks. Stevan Buxbaum, who runs a Los Angeles discount clothing store called Ideal Fashions, reports that manufacturers are calling him from as far away as New York City and offering clothes at prices below wholesale just to move the garments out of their plants...
...little-known men who automatically succeeded Tito in his two national posts-Communist Party Chairman Stevan Doronjski, 60, and State President Lazar Koliševski, 66-eulogized their predecessor profusely. Said Koliševski at graveside: "You have left in your wake one of the deepest traces that a man can imprint upon history." Doronjski praised Tito's dramatic break with the Soviet Union in 1948 as "one of the turning points in the history of our movement," which ever since, he said, has resisted "tying itself to any power bloc...