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...biggest challenge, says Erik Hauser of Swivel Media, who developed the game, was to find a way to engage kids' attention. "They're used to instant messaging, instant gratification and instant pudding. We had to find an approach that wasn't dry or static." Players travel around a fantasy world, plunking down virtual cash at the mall or a car-rental agency, and earn spending money at any of the island's seven virtual ATMs by taking quizzes (after a brief tutorial) on such real-world fundamentals as credit, auto loans and online banking. Sample question: What does APR stand...
...life in Iraq better now than it was under Saddam Hussein? Some things have improved: Iraqis have the vote, the right to express their political opinions, an unfettered media, freedom to travel, even something of a consumer boom. But they also have to live with acute shortages of such everyday essentials as gasoline and electricity--and security. And how much better can life be when so many new kinds of death stalk the streets...
...gift brings Rockefeller's total contribution to $25 million, and will support the center's continuing research and teaching programs, the University said. The gift will also bolster the center's grants for students conducting research that requires travel to Latin America. And it will support grants for students with internships in Latin America, independently or through the center's internship program...
...announcement comes three weeks after several of Harvard's other international study centers denied some students' applications for travel grants for research this summer, in the wake of an increase in applications...
University President Lawrence H. Summers, who has supported international study in his short tenure, cited the center's travel grants in a statement praising Rockefeller...