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Thanks in part to the recent success of the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks sappy tale of virtual love "You've Got Mail," Internet love is transitioning from geekdom to chicdom. On Harvard's campus, students pass up real-life amusements and hold tight to their ethernet lifelines, logging on for love. Here are the true stories of undergraduate virtual romance...
...Middle East. In addition to our economic vulnerability to OPEC policy and our morally questionable military entanglements, we contribute heftily to the economies of some quite un-democratic nations in the region with our oil purchases. Oil exploration has also led to other (underpublicized) foreign affairs debacles like the virtual plunder of Ecuador by Texaco and Shell's appalling exploitation of Nigerian oil in cooperation with the despotic government...
This all might seem like a schoolyard squabble (He's mine! No, he's mine!), but there are bigger stakes involved. Ovitz, once Hollywood's most powerful agent, is trying to cobble together a one-stop "virtual studio" for stars--effectively usurping the roles of agent, manager and studio chief. Round 1 is building the talent bank: Ovitz first captured two of young Hollywood's brightest stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, by bringing over their managers, Rick Yorn and his sister-in-law Julie Silverman Yorn. Ovitz then started going after CAA's list of bankable celebs...
...after 1975 is all that impressed with the concept of government right now. I say "concept" because it feels like all the real senators and representatives and important executive officials are holed up somewhere in Montana, hunkering down in preparation for the Y2K crisis, leaving us with holographic copycats. Virtual government...
...Although virtual patient technology means that students are not interacting with real patients, Rabkin said the tool prepares students for a wide variety of situations and makes the time they spend interacting with patients more productive...