Word: aol
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...cheek and snuggles into the dark green living-room sofa in her home in New Canaan, Conn. Yet this is the same girl who, at the age of 14, found herself alone in a Texas hotel room with a 41-year-old pedophile she first met in an AOL chat room about six months earlier. As he groped her breast, she tried to pull away but could only think to say, "I love...
...dark sitting room, a room decorated with gold lamps and some chinoiserie. She averts her eyes. Perhaps it would have been an entirely average house to grow up in, except for the troubles that began when Katie was 13. One day she entered a teen chat room on AOL, and all at once her adolescence became unlike those of her upper-class conservative teen peers...
...their high-speed connections. The latter is not a point lost on Disney, which apart from its TV and movie holdings has considerable aspirations to be an Internet player. During the dispute, Disney was quick to point out its concern that Time Warner's pending merger with Internet leader AOL has the potential to create a barrier to non-AOL Time Warner companies interested in participating in burgeoning Internet and interactive TV technology. So Disney, with an eye on the future, is said to want assurances from Time Warner (which, by the way, owns TIME.com) that no such favoritism...
...that weren't enough to keep negotiators busy, Disney is also reported to be concerned that Time Warner's pending merger with AOL will create an impenetrable barrier to non-AOL Time Warner companies interested in participating in looming interactive TV technology. If AOL Time Warner's success in cable television extends to Internet provision capabilities, their critics fear that interactive technology, which would enable viewers to participate in game shows and purchase items seen on various programs, could be withheld from people who choose to watch, say, NBC instead of Time Warner networks like CNN and WB. So Disney...
...contrast to the 90% Microsoft's is on), but don't count it out just yet. Released last week, Netscape 6.0 is chockablock with handy features like instant messaging, an automatic language translator and an all-in-one mailbox that lets you view your AOL and Web mail in one place. But the coolest feature is My Sidebar, a window that opens next to the browser to give you a quick view of your stock portfolio, customized news and weather. The browser will also be included in AOL's upcoming web appliances...