Word: virtually
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Japan is not unaccustomed to drama, but transforming catharsis is still a rarity. In the past three years and three months, the country has witnessed the fall of a virtual dictatorship--a party that had held sway for 38 uninterrupted years--and endured a succession of Prime Ministers that was practically Italian in its instability. The economy, once the envy of the world, has only now begun to emerge from four years of stagnation. Yet despite all appearances of revolution, the regime remains the same in the eyes of most Japanese. The nation is ruled not by the parliament...
...finger itchy at the trigger, it's Grrrl you're after. The fact that in real life Grrrl is a pretty twentysomething who rudely shooed you out of her office just before the game started has nothing to do with it, you tell yourself. This is war--or its virtual equivalent...
...most sophisticated self-propagating sites are the so-called MUDS (multi-user dimensions). These virtual worlds have flourished in text-only form for years; now faster networks and better software tools let developers create graphic 3-D versions. Trippy futuristic environments such as Time Warner's Palace Website and the landscapes of Worlds Inc. invite Net surfers to wander in and explore, chatting with strangers, flirting, picking fights, hatching plots...
...race, which pits Pressler against the state's lone Congressman, the popular Tim Johnson, has drawn attention far beyond this sparsely populated state. The Democrats have long seen it as their best chance of unseating a Republican Senator and a virtual must win if they are to retake the Senate. But the race is turning out to be among the year's nastiest. And because of a combination of huge war chests and cheap media markets, the bitterness is being played out in ads that may reach record levels of saturation for a statewide race...
...Arafat cronies have established virtual monopolies in a number of commodities (for instance, cement), channeling part of the revenue to the P.A. and pocketing the rest. Petty forms of corruption are common--and just as galling. Palestinian police are notorious for confiscating goods--such as stolen items or expired food products--and then reselling them to another merchant, or even back to the original offender...