The gold was bought, in turn, from a cybercafé in a Chinese town which employs young professional gamers to play WoW for up to 60 hours a week to earn the online currency.Sitting in a café playing computer games sounds a lot more fun, and certainly less risky, than working down a Chinese coal mine.
Of its seven stages, Wow! lives up to its name, thanks to a lineup that starts with dance hero Four Tet at a very reasonable 8pm, continues with club cadet George Fitzgerald, and then double drops into ribcage-rattling, low-end frequencies from the Bug and friends.
Ms. Jung materializes a half-hour late (she's been huddling with her second-in-command), a corporately correct vision in an Armani pantsuit topped by three sensible strands of Avon pearls, a big coral smile on her lips, her slim right arm outstretched and, wow, offering up what has to be one of Midtown's most powerful handshakes.
Somehow, they had heard of me and, with their big company pow wow coming up, were looking for someone, with a track record, to help them "become more innovative".
Part of this is psychological: Many techs, particularly those with small or nonexistent earnings, face a tough time wowing sobered-up Wall Street in an economically sluggish year.
Jen: Wow, I grew up with clutter just like this.
"My son said, 'Wow' and rushed up," she said.
NON-JEWISH PERSON AT THE SEDER: Wow! We're up to the fun plagues already?
Wow!" Ruth grew up on the Lower East Side, the youngest of eight children.
