Linden Lab was founded in 1999 and its most high-profile creation is Second Life - in which people create and adorn avatars and that live out a parallel existence in the online space.

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The unprecedented wealth creation of the last half-decade has brought second--and third and fourth--homes within the grasp of more Americans.

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Second, the McCain legislation calls for the creation of an industry-government advisory board tasked to consider and jointly develop recommendations concerning future standards for encryption exports.

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Mr. Karzai remains suspicious, too, of the second main pillar of the American war plan: the creation of a 352, 000-strong Afghan army and police force.

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