They need to understand how to live meaningfully in the virtual world .

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And many of them live and try to prosper as much in the virtual as in the physical world, testing the limits of what authorities will tolerate.

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Second Life, as its name implies, is a virtual world in which members create an avatar and then use that character to live out a separate existence.

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