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...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, Wells...
...Thus just as Rosendale touts the benefits that Second Life has brought to some users’ lives, so too should he think that making Second Life a little more socially responsible—and a little less infatuated with money—would be an effective tool for personal change...
...houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." Even though the design world has come a long way since Morris' treatises governed the Arts and Crafts movement, his golden rule is as useful today as it was in the 19th century as a tool for singling out great design. In this special supplement to TIME, we endeavor to identify what we call the Design 100, the people and ideas behind today's most influential design. Or, more specifically, the designers and impresarios who are creating useful and beautiful products, furniture, objects, buildings, houses, fabrics...
...referendum, accessible at uc.fas.harvard.edu, will gauge student sentiment on a new version of the academic calendar endorsed by the UC earlier this month. A successful referendum would represent an advocacy tool for Petersen, who is urging Harvard’s governing boards to change the calendar...
...will be interesting to see just how exercised the Democrats and the media get over that revelation. It confirms the widespread impression in Washington that the Federalist society has become more important as a tool for career advancement among Republican lawyers than as a forum for discussing and strengthening the conservative legal agenda. And it is tangible proof that Gonzales' team was giving weight to political and ideological purity as they assessed which U.S. attorneys they planned to retain or fire...