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...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 in their rooms for hours...
...used to protect animals, states that a method of slaughter is deemed legally humane only if “all animals are rendered insensible to pain by a single blow or gunshot or an electrical chemical, or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast or cut.” While the laws of the land ensure that animals are not subjected to unnecessary amounts of pain, there are still people who believe that a doctor has the legal right to terminate a pregnancy by puncturing a fetus’s skull with seven-inch...
...well-publicized parties, it will be overburdened relative to the rest. This collective action problem will only be solved when all parties are equally well-publicized. Only then will attendance naturally equilibrate to the point at which the most students draw benefit from them. More fundamentally, public parties thrown with public money should be crowded. Hosts and their friends should learn to enjoy their parties in the midst of “random freshmen.” If not to the Currier Ten Man, where is a freshman to go? That party hosts are often openly dismissive of this constituency...
...Mayer checked into the psychiatric ward of an Austrian hospital, and told a local magazine that he was trying to kill himself when he crashed the car. Biathletes Wolfgang Rottmann and Wolfgang Perner, among the 10 Austrians tested, also checked out of the Olympics and returned home - and were thrown off the team for leaving without informing their national committee. It's likely events would not have gone quite so far without Guariniello, who has launched inconclusive doping probes against Torino soccer powerhouse Juventus and a star lineup of Italian cyclists. The 64-year-old, with a background in prosecuting...
...traditional college party scene is fairly restricted at Wellesley, so the weekends there are relatively subdued. The usual Friday might involve hanging out with the girls, catching a play, or going to the occasional party thrown at a society house. The students more frequently party hearty at neighboring colleges or in Boston. Rosenfeld, for example, spends most of her weekend hours at bars in Allston and Cambridge...