Global souls like to wander the virtual globe, waking for breakfast to FB posts from friends overseas.

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You also get Microsoft's Home Essentials 98 (which includes Word 97, Encarta 98, and Works 4.0), Bookshelf 98, Encarta Virtual Globe, Hallmark Greetings Workshop, Money 98, Trip Planner 98, and Streets 98.

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The company has succeeded in luring gamers from around the globe into virtual combat.

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Thus, if you have virtual work teams scattered around the globe, the Cloud is probably for you.

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They'll use telemedicine to bridge the gap between countries with advanced medicine and those without it, creating a virtual retirement colony stretching around the globe.

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Co-founder Anyanwu tells me that she likes to think of Afroterminal as a virtual terminal connecting Africans from across the globe.

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He hopes someday to implement educational practices, working with devices such as the Virtual Music Instrument, that can be adopted by other schools around the globe.

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In a shrinking world where air travel and the Web have made real and virtual nomads of us, major environmental and health problems have also become globe-trotters.

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The virtual world is possible because everything is physically connected by and travels through the globe-straddling weave of cables placed on the bottom of all the oceans.

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