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...What a difference a year makes. Remember the buzz of early 2000? The Internet revolution was going to make the old order redundant: we were all going to bank online, buy clothes online - and, if we couldn't be there in person, watch the weddings and funerals of friends online...
...Crimson hopes to sustain its strong play against top teams as it heads to Georgia for the Buzz Classic...
...object of this buzz is a 47-year-old Democratic Senator who never held public office until 1999 and before that didn't even bother to vote half the time. Even so, Edwards made it all the way to first runner-up in Al Gore's search for a running mate last summer. His first speech on the Senate floor--explaining his vote against throwing Bill Clinton out of office--won raves, even from some Republicans. And his trip last weekend to Iowa, the state that holds the nation's first presidential contest, aroused far more talk than a freshman...
...come along, in effect, to validate an idea he's been nursing for five years. But he thinks the show is pretty small potatoes--nothing more than "mean-spirited office politics being played out on TV." Despite that send-up, Minahan, a onetime producer for the MTV tabloid show Buzz, is an avid viewer of reality TV. "It brings out the worst in everyone. It's exploitative, manipulative, it encourages narcissism and exhibitionism, it's antisocial...But I love it." For, he says, those moments when "a little bit of truth peeks through...
...first residential camps to offer computers as an activity back in the early 1980s. And five years ago, it became one of the first to offer e-mail. "It satisfies some of the need for instant gratification that both parents and kids feel," says owner-director Buzz Ebner. Each child has an individual account and can receive and send e-mails during free time on the camp's 11 networked terminals. Any problems? Sometimes parents become alarmed when their child fails to respond promptly to their e-mail--usually because he is too busy with camp activities...