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Most controversial are the tokens, which have gone corporate. You can now travel the board as a Motorola cell phone, a bag of McDonald's fries, a cup of Starbucks coffee, a Toyota Prius or a New Balance sneaker. The companies did not pay a placement fee, but the consumer group Commercial Alert decried the change as a sign of the ubiquitous branding of American life. Which it is, and which is why the change is overdue. It's part of Monopoly's cultural role: to let people playact contemporary business, pretty...
Combine all that with consumers creating the illusion of status with luxe accessories--the camera phone, the iPod, the $4 latte--and the gentrification of Monopoly makes perfect sense. Is it so ridiculous to let a Toyota Prius define your identity on a game board? That's what Toyota Prius drivers do on the street...
...hate the new Monopoly, take heart. The old version is still for sale, and I suspect there will be a new new Monopoly before long. After all, that 2006 hybrid car and phone will look pretty dated in a couple of years and, as with your personal electronics, you'll want an upgrade. Just another reason to keep passing Go and collecting your $2 million...
...This technology, which allows users to make digital phone calls over the Internet, has become popular with consumers worldwide because it's a cheap way to phone. But in communist Vietnam?where authorities have effectively blocked access to pro-democracy blogs and websites, and e-mails are presumed to be scanned?VoIP has also proven a relatively secure means of political networking. There, activists use VoIP to contact each other, take part in conference calls and live debates, and post recorded voice messages via online forums available on the websites of VoIP providers such as PalTalk, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype...
...zero from NARAL Pro-Choice America. As a House member, Graham caught the nation's attention playing corn-pone puritan as a House manager in Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. "Where I come from," Graham memorably drawled during the trial in the Senate chamber, as he described a phone call the President made to Monica Lewinsky, "you call somebody at 2:30 in the morning, you're up to no good." But in the Senate, Graham has become one of Hillary Clinton's good friends and has sponsored legislation with her to expand health benefits for reservists and members...