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...city council, Jerusalem's tax-paying Arab residents are given short shrift in the allotment of schools, clinics and such basic services as mail delivery and garbage pick-up. Jerusalem's new pragmatic mayor Barkat made his huge fortune mastering the intricacies of cyberspace. He may find that virtual world a cinch compared to Jerusalem's seething complexities. - with reporting by Jamil Hamad and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem...
DeDominicis notes that there are contracting mechanisms that allow medical institutions to set up renewable energy projects on-site, without capital investment. There are also energy-purchasing programs like Practice Green Health's "virtual marketplace" model, which involves real-time reverse energy auctions on the Web: instead of buyers competing to purchase energy, sellers auction packages that include renewables. That drives down the price and narrows cost margins, and the savings allow for a higher percentage of alternative fuels in the package. For example, Ingalls Health System, a 563-bed hospital with satellite facilities in south suburban Chicago, bought...
...advantage over Republican candidate John McCain to buy advertisements in online video games, including the racing game “Burnout Paradise” and role-playing game Second Life. Republican presidential candidate John McCain also had an avatar on Second Life, but Obama supporters playing Second Life painted virtual graffiti and virtually double-parked in front of McCain’s virtual apartment, according to Hillygus. Such advertising was less effective for McCain because his constituency was less likely to play video games, she said...
...Blitzer and his virtual correspondent, most viewers probably don't care whether what they saw was a real hologram or a fake one - which means CNN probably doesn't either. Still, promises Bohrman, "when and if technology allows us to do this for real, we really will...
...advantage over Republican candidate John McCain to buy advertisements in online video games, including the racing game “Burnout Paradise” and role-playing game Second Life. Republican presidential candidate John McCain also had an avatar on Second Life, but Obama supporters playing Second Life painted virtual graffiti and virtually double-parked in front of McCain’s virtual apartment, according to Hillygus. Such advertising was less effective for McCain because his constituency was less likely to play video games, she said...