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Accident near Isanti claims second life years later (5 Eyewitness News St. Paul)
An deadly car accident in Athens Township claimed a second life more than two years after the crash. Now the victims' family wants a stiffer penalty...

Accident near Isanti claims second life years later (KAAL Austin)
An deadly car accident in Athens Township claimed a second life more than two years after the crash.

Can Second Life be used as a higher education tool? (Guardian Unlimited)
Sitting in the front row, I'm looking casual, cool and surprisingly female. I appear to be the first to arrive for the conference but am soon joined by a rather glamorous redhead. We sit in silence. Nothing happens except that her legs change colour occasionally - green, purple and back to normal, or what passes for normal in these parts. It's my first time in Second Life and I feel rather ...

Second Life isn't primary life (The Western Courier)
With the divorce rate in America being as high as 50 percent, what's adding one more element to the list that causes people to separate from one another? Second Life, a 3-D virtual world created by those that live in it, was revealed to the masses in 2003.

Second Life introduces euro currency exchange for virtual residents (Finextra)
E-payments specialist GlobalCollect and DX Exchange have teamed to enable residents of virtual world Second Life to exchange euros for in-game Linden ...

Beeb gets its rocks off in Second Life (The Register)
E-shag guide: First, buy enormous e-todger... The BBC last week more than fulfilled its public service remit by exploring just how saddos can get their ends away on Second Life.…

Virtual affair ends Second Life marriage (Independent Online)
A British woman is to divorce her husband after discovering he was having a virtual affair within the online game Second Life, British media reported.

Second life, podcasting, mobiles, PDAs -- the technology of education (EurekAlert!)
( University of Leicester ) University of Leicester professor asks: Who will survive? Who will change? Who will disappear?

Second Life: is this the future of the academic conference? (Guardian Unlimited)
How will the global business of academic conferences be affected by the recession? It's a multimillion dollar question, worthy of a big conference in itself, hosted in some scenic city with good air connections. On second thoughts, perhaps not, in the approaching era of what the vice-chancellor of Manchester University predicts will be "extraordinary stringency, tougher than anything ...

'Second Life' ends couples' first marriage (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A woman is to divorce her husband after discovering he was having a virtual affair within the online game "Second Life," newspapers reported Friday.