And a small but growing number of "Second Life" users, known as "in-world entrepreneurs, " are making a living off "Second Life" income, even quitting their real-world jobs.
But in the bric-a-brac of daily life, we turn off our curiosity, often replacing it with the short-term, the obvious, the bone-numbingly mundane.
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But this model of marriage has left many less-educated, less well-off Americans without a viable life script.
Dry off with a life-size chess match, and then dress up for a pasta dinner at Chibi Chibi Restaurant on the house.
Obviously, the question remains how big of a trade-off there is on battery life in exchange for those two extra cores and the more powerful graphics chip.
That, however, suggests that female titi and owl monkeys must be involved in a life-shortening trade-off of their own.
To produce an image, you need to start off by building a life-like model, no mean feat with something as intricate as a fly or an ant.
From a molecular perspective, Lucentis was designed to stay in the eye and have a short half-life (two hours), while Avastin was designed to enter the circulatory system and to stick around to fight off cancer (a half-life of 20 days).
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But in crowded cities the great outdoors is rapidly becoming an elite destination - rather than a life-sentence to rural poverty - and domestic tourism is taking off along with the consumer lifestyle.
Suddenly all bets in his well-ordered life are off, and he is forced to flounder toward a deeper engagement with the adult life that he has not yet learned how to lead.
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But he landed a two-year deal with Hull which gave him a new lease of life, culminating with a superb display for Wigan in the final play-off eliminator against his former club Leeds.
For a peep into everyday Bangkok life, catch a boat during morning rush hour when smartly-dressed commuters jump off and on the regularly-stopping boats as easily as though they were on a bus.
The media's idea of what is off-limits in a candidate's private life continues to shrink.
Later, the Notre Dame coach sent off a letter to his larger-than-life rival, who would pass away 10 years later, about a month after his final game.
This vision was captured most vividly by the so-called Shahbag movement, a spontaneous gathering in Dhaka of thousands of artists, students and ordinary people who rallied to demand the death penalty for another Jamaat-e-Islami mass murderer let off with a life sentence by the court in February.
Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy noted at the time, (1) such action represented a deplorable capitulation to foreign pressure in the face of a clear national interest in cutting off the economic life-support to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Brass-band funerals are a life force here, a send off carrying the promise of a more lyrical world to come.
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has also come back to life a bit, bouncing well off its 200-day moving average.
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This means that if you have a less-than-average life expectancy, you may be better off taking Social Security earlier.
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The group sparked a storm of protest from pro-life activists last year when they docked off the coast of Ireland, where the practice of abortion is illegal.
During her 27 years at CNN, Moos has covered national and international issues and ground-breaking news and features, but she soon carved out a niche with her off-beat, thoughtful reporting on the quirkier aspects of life.
According to a study of off-ramping professional women sponsored by The Center for Work-Life Policy (completed in 2005, updated in 2010, ) almost one third of professional women off-ramp at some point, often pulled by family considerations.
Straight away Billy Mehmet had a shot as the second half sparked into life, but his effort was off-target.
Yesterday, I attended a panel discussion of new data released by the Center for Work-Life Policy about off-rampers and on-rampers.
The day may not be far off, then, when a dicky heart can be serviced in mid-life and made good for a few more years.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly say it is a necessary, life-saving, crime-fighting tool that helps keep illegal guns off the street and has helped New York reach all-time crime lows.
To let off steam, she turns her real-life frustrations into laughs at a stand-up comedy club.
Johnson says he tries to act as a mentor, or life coach, for his students, helping them handle the off-court stress of trying to cut high enough grades and test scores for an Ivy League college.
The turnaround actually started this off-season, when Wright signed the contract that likely will make him a Met for life.
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