Word: virtual
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...cameras to capture the images, which the Berlusconi-owned TG5 news program broadcast live, and replayed the morning after. All of the hoopla came with just a minuscule margin of victory in the Lower House, and the race for the vital control of the Senate in a virtual deadlock-awaiting the final six seats to be determined by votes to be counted of Italians living abroad (it appeared later Tuesday that with support of those outside of Italy the center-left had clinched the Senate by two votes). Prodi?s appearance "in piazza" was a media moment that the center...
...says she will prove them wrong. She has started a Pennsylvania-based correspondence course that both her mother and sister completed. For $985, it provides textbooks, online tests and teacher support via phone and e-mail. The rush to cash in on dropouts has made such correspondence courses and "virtual high schools" the Wild West of secondary education, a multimillion-dollar industry that can offer a valuable second chance but has suffered at times from poor oversight and a dizzying array of self-styled accrediting institutions, many of which aren't recognized by mainstream colleges...
...another, but there's a big difference between choosing a candidate and choosing a side. Ironically, there's probably nothing more divisive than these studies themselves; whatever academic value they may have, they are a blessing to cable news stations, easy fodder for talking heads. The shoutfests are virtual as well: the words "study" and "more likely to" can prompt the creation of whole galaxies in the blogosphere...
Where I live, just outside Washington, Facebook.com is both noun and verb, the unchallenged colossus of adolescent communication that works like the telephone, the back fence, the class bulletin board (and, at times, the locker room), all rolled into one virtual mosh pit. In other towns, MySpace.com plays the same starring role. In both cases, they have legions of parents pulling out their hair...
...MySpace is the No. 2 most- trafficked spot on the Internet; Facebook is No. 7, right behind Google. MySpace is open to anyone with an e-mail address; Facebook requires members to be affiliated with a college or a high school, which is why it's the preferred virtual reality in my household...