Vegas is a city-sized version of this obsession with control, under a shallow sea of cultural references.
He has attended gatherings for a medical association celebrating the anniversary of the first use of anesthetics and another for the Gasparilla Parade, a pirate-themed festival that is the city's version of Mardi Gras.
Her heroine, Eve Diamond, prowls an updated version of the city Raymond Chandler made famous in his hard-boiled mysteries.
In their hands, laid tummy-down on the living room carpet, the 3DS version of Lego City Undercover turned into a place where magic happens.
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Near Global is launching in 2009 with the promise to offer the most accurate 3D version of a city ever produced as a virtual world.
His researchers are working on virtual stores for a retail firm and a three-dimensional computer version of the city of Coventry for use by architects and planners in local government.
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Social gaming firm Zynga - which bought a Beijing studio in 2010 - has linked up with Tencent to launch a beta version of Zynga City, a local adaption of its Cityville title.
An employee at NBC 's 30 Rockefeller Center building in New York City developed a skin-based version of the disease.
Fiat will unveil a new version of its Panda city car Wednesday, but a slowing economy could pose risks for the company's plan to revive its manufacturing in Italy.
An electric version of the iQ city car will arrive in Japan (as the eQ) and the US (as the iQ EV) this December, but the automaker is significantly scaling back its 2010 promises of several thousand cars sold per year to just 100 fleet-oriented vehicles.
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Where Pi breaks ground is its reinterpretation of deep dish, with a lot of cornmeal added to the crust, less buttery than the Chicago version, and much more coherent, so that you can pick up a slice and eat it fairly neatly with your hands, rather than the fork and knife casserole version of the Windy City.
The desert city looks like a new, improved version of many of those on China's seaboard far to the south-east.
Along with a weekly society magazine distributed only to subscribers to the printed version of Reforma in Mexico City, that helps the title cultivate an air of exclusivity.
On May 30, the company's New Line Cinema division is releasing the feature-film version of Sex and the City, following a blockbuster six-year run on its cable outlet, HBO.
Are we to believe two multi-medalists used the new drug this year, but that nobody used the old version either at Salt Lake City or in the Summer Olympics two years ago in Sydney?
So a few years ago Hasbro, the makers of Monopoly, hired Chuck Phillips to help them run a poll where fans could vote for their favorite city to be featured in a future version of the popular board game.
Digiaro terms it a social media version of Yelp, the online city guide that offers reviews of small businesses.
Subscribers opt in by going to Thrillist.com and punching in an e-mail address and the desired newsletter version (Thrillist publishes 12 different city editions across the U.S.).
An early version of eminent domain allowed the city to take the land, reimbursing the owner at market rates, a cost made up for by assessments and sales.
Berlin has announced its own, much more modest, version of London's Tech City Investment Organization, marking a policy change for the city which to date had shunned the top-down approach that London embraced.
Designers say the move toward more elaborate closets first began five to 10 years ago, and accelerated among wealthy homeowners with the debut of the 2008 film version of "Sex and the City, " when Sarah Jessica Parker's character, Carrie Bradshaw, sees a home with a sprawling walk-in closet big enough for her large shoe collection.
In 1933 Charles Darrow produced a much simplified version that eschewed socialism and used Atlantic City place names.
Much like Las Vegas, this is a fully modernized version of the past (though Atlantic City is more like the area a few blocks off the Vegas Strip).
They are hoping this season's version has a happier ending, although City will have to develop a greater cutting edge in front of goal and overcome a capacity for making life hard for themselves to achieve that.
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The first Pins will open on May 29th, with the Pin 5 (a 5-by-5 meter indoor location) making temporary appearances at Spitalfields Market, Westfield and White City, while the 7-by-7 outdoor version (Pin 7) will pop up in the Olympic Park along with Hyde Park at a later date this year.
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The battery version will follow soon after, billed as a city car.
Akinkugbe says that two other African countries -- South Africa and Morocco -- have a version of Monopoly, but Lagos is the only city in the continent to have its own edition.
Sony's expected to show the PlayStation 3's successor at a New York City event next Wednesday, February 20th, wherein a new version of the company's classic DualShock controller is expected to be unveiled.
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