A line of fans wound its way around the top floor of the Beverly Center, a shopping mall close to the heart of los Angeles.

大排长龙的粉丝们聚集在贝佛利中心，一个靠近洛杉矶中心的商厦。

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The quantitative approach to networking has been exacerbated by technology, says psychiatrist Dr. Reef Karim, an assistant clinical professor at UCLA and director of The Control Center in Beverly Hills, CA. Social media networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter offer a continuous feedback loop, where success may be graded by follower counts and rabid updating.

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This just in from the obvious files: Rolls-Royce customers would rather be in a million-dollar home shrouded in fog at the edge of a Beverly hill rather than schlep downtown to the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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