Word: virtualization
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...immediate crafting of the sojourn had been equally painstaking and personal, a powerful three-part pilgrimage recapitulating the very development of the Christian concept of God. It began officially on Feb. 24, when, denied entrance by Iraq, John Paul made a "virtual pilgrimage" (using props and videotape) to the city of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, with whom God made his first covenant. The journey continued with the Pope's visit to the mountain in Egypt thought by many to be Mount Sinai, atop which the Lord presented Moses with...
...degrees has doubled in the past year, according to a study released last week. The distance-education craze has spawned cyber-only schools like Jones International University, whose Colorado-based operation offers online courses to 500 students in 30 countries. Traditional campuses are also getting wired. Stanford offers a virtual master's degree; the University of Chicago and Columbia, among others, have signed up with the Internet start-up UNext.com to create a for-profit online college. Saylor's announcement ups the ante considerably. He is banking on replacing the world's "10,000 average professors" with an all-star...
...Service (under the pseudonym M.J. Rose), on the Web in 1998 after getting rejected by several publishers. "My goal was to get a couple of thousand readers and go back with a new novel to publishers and show them I had a following," she said. But after promoting her virtual book on woman-friendly websites and selling 150 downloadable copies at $9.95 each, she hocked the jewelry she got from her ex-husband to print 3,000 paperback copies. The Amazon reader reviews were so positive that she soon got a contract from Pocket Books, which made her the first...
...where its steady, dependable growth and vaunted brand power, like that of many consumer powerhouses, made it a must for countless portfolios. Sure, wireless PDAs and baby websites may be cool, but you can't diaper the baby with a computer mouse, or clean up spilled milk with a virtual paper towel. "The rumors of the demise of national brands have been greatly exaggerated," says Jim Crimmins, worldwide brand planning director of ad agency...
...holds up a fat sprig of marijuana buds and points out the crystals of dried resin that sparkle like tiny diamonds in the flat winter sunlight. These crystals make the local pot, which has been perfected through indoor growing under virtual laboratory conditions, twice as potent as competing varieties from Northern California and Oregon and six times as strong as most common Colombian and Mexican products. "This," Emery says, smiling at the minty-smelling weed, "is the top of the market." Across town, Dave Williams, an investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agrees--but he's not smiling. "British...