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...that shapes Seabrook's narrative. Inspired by the promise of a "virtual community" to join the Well, a legendary West Coast bulletin-board system, Seabrook learns in various hard ways that a community of digital beings can be just as constraining--and cruel--as the corporeal kind. Unwritten rules abound, and when Seabrook breaches a few, the Well's otherwise benevolent group mind turns on him in what one Well veteran calls a Chicken Peck--"where one of the flock shows a bit of blood, and a few of the other chickens (it doesn't take many...
...make gay death terrifyingly ordinary. And yes, I know that the vast majority of people with AIDS are not gay, but I so rarely get invited to their memorials or their fund raisers honoring Angela Lansbury. I am also aware that equally or more devastating cancers and famines abound, all worthy of dollars and galas; one of the more darkly satiric aspects of the AIDS crisis has been periodic outbursts of competitive suffering...
...irony here is that the vehemence of Quincy's city council is the kind of community action that is so sorely lacking in many of America's neighborhoods where real threats--drugs, gangs, etc.--abound. But in Quincy, the antibody piercing brou-ha-ha seems like nothing more than a witch hunt. Miller's store is clean, he's experienced, and his services aren't even unique. Yet the good citizens of Quincy seem convinced that the only way to safeguard their children is to ride Miller out of town on a rail. They don't seem to realize that...
Many referrals involve such learning disabilities as attention deficit disorder. North Carolina's Dr. Levine says that the methodology used is often "ridiculous" and that add misdiagnoses abound. Ultimately, he says, special ed. is a resource-allocation issue. "We have to be honest," he argues. "Why can't a community say, 'Long-term therapy works, but we can't afford...
...19th century poet and critic Matthew Arnold commended Homer's "speed, directness and simplicity" in the original Greek, and these qualities abound in Fagles' translation. The problems the epic must resolve are quickly set forth. All the surviving Greek heroes from the 10-year siege and ultimate destruction of Troy--the subject matter of the Iliad--have long since returned to their homes except Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. There, 10 years after the fall of Troy, his faithful wife Penelope fends off a riotous band of suitors for her hand in marriage; his son Telemachus, an infant when...