Word: america
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...newsroom drama, the Times remains one of America's top newspapers. While the paper seemed to sag during the past decade, it has regained some bite under the tutelage of Michael Parks, the Pulitzer prizewinning foreign correspondent who became editor in 1997. The paper often beat its Washington rivals in covering campaign-finance abuses last year, does solid coverage of Hollywood business, and is in the middle of a hard-hitting series on police corruption. Though its Sunday magazine remains lightweight, the spiky, liberal-leaning Book Review is winning raves...
...Real crossed the line when it correlated that ID number with each user's e-mail address and matched it to the user's offline listening habits. Even this might have been O.K. if it had disclosed the practice and given users the option to block it, as America Online does (see AOL's explicit privacy guidelines at keyword privacy...
...school are members of the Youth Coalition and Hands Are Not for Hitting, as well as gay-straight alliances. One friend is starting a program to help needy children, and another volunteers as a translator at a low-income medical clinic. Last summer I spent eight weeks in Latin America as a public health worker. Yes, a lot of teenagers do use drugs, need antidepressants and flunk out of school. But what about the rest of us? Why not pay attention to the simple, progressive things teenagers are doing? Have a little faith in the up-and-coming generation. ERIKA...
...advertising for her line, holds no runway shows and shuns the press and the party circuit. Yet last year her 2 1/2-year-old label did $20 million in sales and netted her a nomination for the Perry Ellis Award for new talent given by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. "The customer has found me," she says. "It has definitely become a cult following." One enthusiast is Gwyneth Paltrow, who recently trilled to Vogue, "I try to get every pair of pants Katayone Adeli makes...
Brooklyn, Ohio: John Coyne, 82, lost his job as America's longest-serving mayor after 52 years. He said bad weather kept senior citizens, his base constituency, home...