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Last week the answers got caught up in several of the city's roiling social debates, stoking resentments just in time for a hot summer, and were broadcast around the world, thanks to the fact that the events happened in the city's landmark park. Some victims said police didn't take them seriously when alerted that evening; some cops said their hands were tied by pols who wanted to avoid at all costs another racial incident sparked by the mostly white force. And no one wanted to face the scariest implication--that the city could again become the dangerous...
...sooner was the Internet opened to home users than its essential text became the personal home page, a document dedicated to the fact that its author exists: here I am, here is my dog, here is my story. And that was before 24-hr. webcams enabled their users to broadcast live feeds from their offices and boudoirs, even from inside their refrigerators (see accompanying story). With so many willing, casual exhibitionists among us, it's less surprising that VTV happened than that it didn't happen sooner...
...voyeurism on the Internet? Let us count the ways. Three years ago, just over a third of a million people bought those little eyeball-shaped cameras called webcams that live on top of a computer monitor, connect to the Internet and can turn anyone's life into a continuous broadcast. Last year 2.5 million webcams were sold. By 2003, sales of these eminently cheap ($50) little devices are expected to hit 36 million. When you buy your next PC, it's as likely to come with a webcam as with a keyboard...
...wrote, "is impermissible because it sends the ancillary message to members of the audience who are non-adherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community." School-sponsored prayer broadcast over a loudspeaker, he continued, implicitly and explicitly encourages prayer in what must remain a secular environment...
...tough for most Americans to root for a group that launches its protest by chanting "Rats have Rights!" But that's exactly what the folks over at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are planning to do outside the CBS studios during Dan Rather's evening news broadcast Friday night...