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...authorities arrested Pinochet in London in 1998 on an arrest warrant issued from Spain - where prosecutors wanted to try him for allegedly ordering the execution of leftist Spaniards living in Chile in the 1970s. He was eventually released back to Chile, but he spent his last years in a virtual prison of legal assaults and deteriorating health. In October a Chilean judge ordered Pinochet under house arrest on charges related to human rights atrocities at Villa Grimaldi, a detention center outside Santiago run by Pinochet's vicious secret police...
...phones” warning succinctly stated, “Technology’s a bitch.” However, the stories—and their juxtaposition—work most interestingly as an examination of fantasy and reality. “The Veldt,” in which a virtual-reality playroom takes over the lives of a family, and “To the Chicago Abyss,” about a man who remembers the past before an unstated cataclysm when doing so is a crime against the state, showed two sides of the imagination and its power...
...Adam have three priorities that are focused and achievable through results-oriented plans: to strengthen our campus, to improve our education, and to enhance our experience at Harvard. They have concrete proposals (available at www.thenewuc.com) for achieving these goals, from creating a student endowment to building a virtual web portal for students to increasing departmental classes that count for Core credit. By driving after proposals that work toward definite greater ends, the New UC will build momentum and avoid the scatter-shot inaction...
...farmers” are paid to sit at computers all day and obtain valuable items in online games for resale to first-world clients. Against this backdrop, such incidents look less like the actions of obsessed nerds, and more like the advance wave of an emerging society in which virtual realities are worth killing...
...light of these more pernicious incursions of the virtual sphere into real-world violence, maybe “joystick elbow” wasn’t so bad after...