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...built. Outfits such as Bruegger's Bagel Bakery, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Chesapeake Bagel Bakery, Manhattan Bagel, Noah's New York Bagels, Big Apple Bagels (Do you detect a theme here?) and the Great American Bagel are rolling into communities that wouldn't know the real thing from a catcher's mitt. Says Jack Grumet, ceo of the Manhattan Bagel Co.: "What happened to the pizza in the '40s and '50s is happening to the bagel today. Soon there will be bagel shops on every street corner...
Martin, 27, really is a coal miner's daughter, the coal miner being John Salters of the tiny town of Mullens, West Virginia. Christy was a catcher in Little League and a good enough player on her high school basketball team to score 50 points in a half. She also played basketball at Concord College in nearby Athens, where she got her education degree in just three years. One night she accepted a dare to enter a local Toughwoman contest--"There's not that much to do in southern West Virginia," she says--and three Toughwoman titles later...
Civil libertarians argue that the Decency Act, in the name of protecting children, criminalizes everything from safe-sex information to The Catcher in the Rye. Says Shabbir Safdar, co-founder of the activist group Voters' Telecommunications Watch: "They basically want to turn the Internet into Barney the dinosaur." The Clinton Administration opposed earlier versions of the decency bill but refused to hold up the entire telecommunications bill to get rid of it. Pressed on the issue, a defensive Vice President Al Gore told reporters, "We're obligated to administer the law, but we said from the start this particular provision...
Even classic pieces of literature, from Huckleberry Finn to The Catcher In The Rye, would no longer be available via electronic libraries, since occasionally vulgar language might not be legally "proper" for children...
...making it illegal to transmit "indecent" materials to minors, or discuss where or how to get an abortion on the Internet. The ACLU says it will challenge the bill in federal court, contending that the bill's wording is so vague that it would prohibit transmittal of novels like "Catcher in the Rye" and other forms of already-permitted free speech. Acccording to TIME's Joshua Quittner, "The protest shows the solidarity of online providers against a truly Kafkaesque piece of legislation." Quittner is not disappointed by the relative gentleness of the protest. "The online community is not particularly militant...