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...term pledges and objectives. Stewart's cleanup of Murad Khane has thus given him the license to embark on the cultural projects that are his real passion. He is directing the area's architectural restorations, and he has set up the Centre for Traditional Afghan Arts and Architecture to teach craftsmen the skills they will need to restore old buildings...
...more specifically—and I would argue disturbingly—Second Life has forgone massive potential benefits by fostering a skewed worldview. By simply dividing its Grid world into individual domains to be bought and sold, Second Life forgets the principle of a public good, and does not teach the importance of interdependence that is crucial to adult life in the real world. Such benefits include consideration for the environmental impact of development or the sociological importance of creating stable communities. By overemphasizing profit at the expense of responsibility, Second Life discourages the interpersonal cooperation that could provide...
...Business Week profiled Anshe Chung, a Second Life user who had made $250,000 USD in virtual Linden Dollars. Chung could exchange this for American dollars on the LindeX Currency 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...
...business school student. “I have some great firsthand experience in the Marine Corps, but it’s a different world out in the civilian world,” he said. “What business school does is complement your military skills with skills they teach you. It adds more tools to your kitbag...
...relied on her faith and returned to Columbine that fall for her senior year, becoming a peer counselor. When she enrolled in college, she initially pursued her ambition to teach. But soon she decided that she could make a difference among young people in another way, and became a speaker and author. In her book Marked for Life, she writes about how Columbine became a pivotal point in her life, and she has been invited to speak at schools around the world about the tragedy...