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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Second Life Becomes First Job for Adventurous Few - June Arney, The Baltimore Sun
In this simulated land, more than 9 million computer users from around the world take on digital personas -- cartoon-like characters called "avatars" -- that allow them to live out their dreams, however unlikely or impossible. People get married, start businesses, build homes, travel and hold down jobs just as they do in their "first life." They buy and sell and start businesses.
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