This is an interesting article on Salon:

[quote]Who killed Miss Norway?
Five years ago, the news that a beauty pageant participant had died in a car crash stunned her virtual world friends. But was it really an accident?[/quote]

link: [url]http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/04/14/who_killed_miss_norway/ [/url]

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