Word: virtual
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...expected to rule in the next few weeks on Fischer's appeal against deportation. If the decision goes against Fischer, Bosnitch says his group will launch more legal challenges. They are also trying to get Fischer valid travel documents from a third country, which might prove to be a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card. While requests to a variety of countries for asylum have so far come to nothing, Bosnitch says a German passport remains a possibility: "Because Bobby's father was a German citizen, Bobby is a German citizen. But since Bobby has never asserted that citizenship...
...luck was not totally unexpected. Floridians have weathered repeated deadly hurricanes, such as Andrew, which in 1992 became the costliest U.S. disaster prior to 9/11. But those lessons were ephemeral. People have continued to move into Florida's dense metropolises, perched on the water's edge. And virtual cities of trailer parks have sprung up alongside vulnerable inlets. Some call it hurricane amnesia, and a cure is not in sight...
...didn't factor in likely U.S. involvement. Why would Taiwan's military profess to be so vulnerable? Possibly because they are eager to buy expensive weapons from the U.S., such as diesel-electric subs and Patriot-3 antimissile systems?and a crushing defeat at the hands of a virtual People's Liberation Army makes a compelling case for such an expense. Chen is asking the legislature to take early action on $18 billion in military spending, but he may face tough opposition. "The military is lobbying for the budget, and this was a way to remind people [why]," says...
When I decided to become a photographer, he became my virtual teacher. I didn't have enough money to buy books, so I would go to bookstores every day, stand in the aisles and study the works of great photographers. I quickly learned that Cartier-Bresson was the foundation of contemporary photography. I looked at his pictures every day, sometimes for hours at a time. They never got old. There was always something I hadn't seen before, a hidden meaning right there on the surface, a new formal insight, a sudden smile, a subtle barb aimed at hypocrisy...
Tomahna isn't real, but as you watch the leaves sway in the breeze and the clouds drift across the sky, it's easy to forget that. It's one of several interconnected virtual worlds that players explore in the new computer game Myst IV: Revelation, due out Sept. 28 from Ubisoft...