Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he does bad things. In the perky new comedy You've Got Mail, Hanks runs a giant chain that threatens to ruin a children's bookstore run by Meg Ryan; he is Big Business engulfing and devouring the sweet spirit of independence. In the intimate anonymity of a chat room, he carries on an e-mail affair with Ryan and doesn't tell her that her destroyer is her potential beau. At a literary soiree he scoops up all the caviar. Who is this creep? Tom Hanks. And because he is, he must be decent, searching, a thoughtful lover...
...This is in line with the trends we've been tracking," says TIME science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "More than half of AOL users are now girls and women, largely because it offers such good e-mail chat services." And even in a p.c. PC world, is it that surprising that women find chat addictive? Still, one might expect than only kids would have 55 hours a week to spend online -- the average dose for self-described addicts -- but researchers were surprised to discover that the typical Net fiend was closer to 30. They also tended to be depressed...
...tend to forget a couple of things about nerds. One is that despite their inability to dress for success, chat up girls or win the big homecoming game, they are often enviably--maddeningly--smart. The other is that their obsessiveness need not be confined to computer hacking. It can embrace--to take the convenient example of Max Fischer--fencing, beekeeping, astronomy, the dramatic arts and, alas, age-inappropriate lust...
Radcliffe College President Linda S. Wilson came ready to chat with undergraduates at two scheduled dinners this week, but few students chose to join her at the table...
...Even [if] just one or two people [attend], at least President Wilson will be able to get some ideas from undergraduates. I think [attendance] will probably be more than that," she said. "If you want to have a really informal chat, you can't have a huge crowd...