Word: virtual
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Harvard professors are rubbing virtual shoulders with the world’s premier minds on a Web site launched by two alums. The site, BigThink.com, bills itself as “a YouTube for ideas” and aims to bring the technology of video-sharing to the service of intellectual discourse. It was funded in part by former University President Lawrence H. Summers. “The goal is really to recreate the vibrant space of a university or a think tank—where ideas get exchanged all the time—online, where it?...
...deal with Obama. Even as the results in Iowa were still coming in, the Clinton campaign was mobilizing onto an attack footing. But it's possible that the most difficult problem is not Obama; it could be Clinton. How can she retool her message - and her identity as a virtual incumbent - to resonate with an electorate that seems to yearn more for change than any other quality? Says one longtime Democratic strategist, who is close to the Clintons: "Fundamentally, she is who she is; she can't change who she is, and maybe this is not her time...
...piece of Internet-scouring software, not their teacher, will be issuing the final grades. And as the 15 students regularly check the class's blog for the latest rankings, Wilkinson has structured his curriculum to give them tips on how to get - and stay - famous in this increasingly saturated virtual world...
...scour the Internet, caught in a constant loop of what he terms "scraping" - constantly going through search engines, blogs, networking sites, video hubs and other sources for what's hot, what's new, and where his students stand. Thus far, what they have uncovered is a sprawling, and expanding, virtual hierarchy that is all but unknown by most Americans...
...course of duty, Inspector Chen has tackled political corruption (Death of a Red Heroine, 2000) and human trafficking (A Loyal Character Dancer, 2002). Qiu's 2006 mystery, A Case of Two Cities, was a virtual blueprint for the pension scandal that roiled Shanghai's highest political aeries last year and led to the resignation of the city's Communist Party chief. "A cop walks around and knocks on people's doors, asks questions," Qiu says. "It's become a convenient way to write about things I want to explore...