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...proudly announces that it is "the only branded dating show in television." To boost sales of the show (sample segments: "Stud or Dud?" "Know Your Hooters") the producers have shipped in a clubload of the identically clad gals from the Vegas branch. In the course of my investigation I chat to several of these girls in their tangerine hotpants and tight white crop-tops. (Tough work, but I can take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Dogs, Hot Pizzas and Hot Hooters Girls | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

...Kwang Chul, 26. Choi was in a PC room in July 1998, trying to stay awake while waiting to catch the first morning bus back to her home in the suburbs. Kim, a university senior, accidentally clicked on her icon and kept pestering her for a chat. They dated, got married a year later, and are expecting their first child later this year. Says Choi: "PC and the Internet became an important part of our lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Wires Up | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the Internet has created many unhappy endings. Teenage girls are offering themselves for sex at chat sites, and police have set up a special squad to patrol cyberspace. In a society where smut isn't readily available, easy access to the Internet is exposing more kids to pornography, says Kim Yong Hak, a sociology professor at Yonsei University. In a survey of 10 elementary schools in Seoul, he found 10% of 11-year-olds had visited porn sites. With PCs in kids' bedrooms and PC rooms on every street corner, it isn't easy to turn back the tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Wires Up | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...second floor of the Copacabana to wait for Peter Buck, R.E.M.'s guitarist, but, while I'm waiting, Michael Stipe, the band's lead singer, pops by. His manager tells me since Buck is delayed, Stipe didn't want to keep me waiting and popped by to chat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...Later that weekend, I had a chat with Sting as he lounged on a couch in the lobby of the Copacabana Palace. "I'm having a good time," he said. He had gotten some sun, and he had also gotten in some chess while hanging out by the pool. Chess and tanning simultaneously. That's why he's Sting. "Brazilian music has informed my work from the very beginning of my career," he said. "Particularly Jobim and Ivan Lins." Sting says he's also a fan of the city of Rio. "It's a very compelling city," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

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