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Doing Good in the Second Life 'Metaverse'

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By Lisa Selin Davis
May 9, 2007
Cities & Transportation

Could Second Life, the buzz-generating virtual hangout for millions of digerati and their avatars, help improve that other place called Real Life? OnEarth's Laura Wright talks with Lisa Selin Davis, who wrote about "the metaverse" in OnEarth's Spring 2007 issue.

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Lisa Selin Davis is a New York City-based freelance journalist and the author of the novel Belly (Little, Brown).  She alos writes for the New York Times, New York magazine, This Old House, Plenty, and other publications.