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Jimmy: "The scene played out like an aspiring young adult's nightmare. I was going to my first real taste of the band, and the concert seemed to be attended entirely by teeny-boppers of the Britney variety. And it was Halloween, so a majority of the teens were dressed in costumes, adding a surreal flavor to an already strange night.What were probably hired actors stood outside the venue with sandwich boards proclaiming "America Will Burn" and handing out humorous pamphlets declaring that God does not play the bongos. The theme of the concert I was to discover later...
...every decision I make is affected by my being a woman, how it affects my place at this school, on this planet, and in my mind. Williams sings a song entitled "When I Was a Boy," which focuses on the jolting change from androgynous youth to adolescent and adult society, where gender determines rules for behavior and lifestyle...
...clearest in its use of appealing rhetoric from two popular traditions: communitarian and voluntaristic. The company can comfortably engage itself in Youth Smoking Prevention campaigns and denounce "complete government-imposed smoking bans or severe restriction" all in the same breath, since it claims that smoking is a question of adult free choice...
Your article on the recent study done by this commission warning of the dangers of letting infants sleep in adult beds was off base [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR FAMILY, Oct. 11]. We showed that every year 64 children under the age of two die in adult beds. Your article referred to the deaths as "only 64," but even one death is too many. Since 1989 the CPSC has warned that infants should never be put to sleep in adult beds because of the risk of entrapment or suffocation. This is the first study to quantify the number of fatalities resulting from...
...course, always sells. Pornography websites were among the first to turn a profit in e-commerce. So-called adult material accounts for 69% of the $1.5 billion worth of online content--services that can be downloaded, including music and games--in the U.S. and Western Europe, according to a May 1999 study by research firm Datamonitor. But taking sanitized sex to the masses--and particularly to women--has given purveyors of erotica an entirely new audience. "Taking the smut out of sex is a clever thing to do," says Michael Poyner, retailing expert with London consultants Credo Group...