The order does not cover the Green Zone, which houses Iraqi government buildings and the U.S. Embassy, or military installations, government institutions, hotels or some private companies.

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More than 1, 400 organizations around the world, including large enterprises, educational institutions, government agencies and the US Military, currently use Second Life to hold meetings, conduct training and prototype new technologies more efficiently and cost effectively.

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Such reform would appear to be far easier to enact now that the principal impediment -- Gorbachev's government and the institutions with which it was associated (the Communist Party, the KGB and the military-industrial complex) -- is in extremis.

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