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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...built in a certain degree of frustrationLithgow said. "It's like a smorgasbord with toomuch food...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Turns Out for Arts First | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...that argument at all," she says."One could argue that Harvard is already a men'scenter. It's naive to assume that women do nothave certain needs just because men don't havethem...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Students Wonder Why Radcliffe Considers Its Job Done | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Still, even the best of these tools, deployed with the greatest care, work only when they're coupled with bold parental involvement. Bonnie Fell, of Skokie, Ill., is the family Internet cop, making certain at least once a month to open all the files that have been downloaded by her two teenage sons--which she'll do, she says, "whether the boys are there or not. And they know it." Carleton Kendrick, a family therapist in Medfield, Mass., suggests that accompanying your child to a website he frequents is no different from "checking out a playground where your kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising Kids Online | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...Trouble is, so do many kids, but for the opposite reason. For some of them, violence rules. That's why game ratings imposed by the RECREATIONAL SOFTWARE ADVISORY COUNCIL, bottom left, are mocked by gamers; RSAC's website-ratings system hasn't fared much better. Other systems simply deem certain games "teen" or "mature"--but as most families know, maturity is graded on a sliding scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberguide | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...Administration does now is likely to repair damage already done. Why didn't the FBI and DOE monitor computer activity at Los Alamos more closely? Why did the Justice Department turn down the FBI's appeal for help? Freeh and former Energy Secretaries Pena and Hazel O'Leary are certain to be targets of the Cox panel's probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Time To Panic? | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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