The Avatar Kinect system will let people host and attend virtual meetings and gatherings with the avatars of their friends and have their on-screen doubles act out what they are doing in real life.

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The group, founded by The Other Side of the Closet author Amity Buxton, commiserates online and in local meetings and annual gatherings that attract hundreds.

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But state prosecutors said they consider grand jury testimony by four women that Tripp discussed recording the Lewinsky conversations at bridge club meetings and other social gatherings to be first-hand accounts that she engaged in illegal wiretapping.

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He spoke to Forbes' Mumbai bureau chief Naazneen Karmali between client meetings and town-hall gatherings with the local staff.

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The firm has cut out all nonessential travel, and big gatherings or meetings are being avoided.

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But its social logic is the same you find at coffee hours for retirees, cocktail gatherings for Notre Dame alumni, and meetings for recovering alcoholics.

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