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...city of Chicago will be successful only if its case reinvigorates the national demand for gun control legislation as the tobacco lawsuits did for non-smoking laws. To win the fight against gun makers and other apparent public threats, regulation must remain a legislative process rather than a judicial one. Alex M. Carter '00 is a history and literature concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...between clear dysfunction and normal unruliness--who raise the tough ethical issues, both public and private. The pace at which Ritalin use has been growing has alarmed critics for a while now. Some doctors find themselves battling anxious parents who, worried that their child will daydream his future away, demand the drug, and if refused, go off to find a more cooperative physician. Some parents feel pressured to medicate their child just so that his behavior will conform a bit more to other children's, even if they are quite content with their child's conduct--quirks, tantrums...
...expand. (Sales of home PCs have been increasing at the pace of 23% a year.) According to the research firm IDC of Mountain View, Calif., the market for information appliances will grow from $485 million in the U.S. today to $4.2 billion in 2002, when it will surpass the demand for home PCs. "Computers are still too complicated and too expensive," says IDC's Sean Kaldor...
...judged contests held every year (Family Fun magazine, Duracell batteries, and CBS all sponsor such tests, involving thousands of children across the nation). But Tyco, the Mattel-owned manufacturer, didn't expect it to become a giant seller. Then Rosie O'Donnell tickled Elmo on her show, and demand exploded. Once again, scarcity inspired collectors, reporters discovered a "hot" story, and your kid bawled his eyes out two years ago because Santa couldn't find Elmo before Christmas morn...
...through extensive use of the World Wide Web, we have found the ultimate electronic hallucinogen [TECHNOLOGY, Nov. 9]. When enough computer-stoned Americans are floating through the neon-hued "planetwide sprawl of loosely interconnected chat rooms" called palaces, the criminal drug trade might just dry up for lack of demand. No one really needed opium after commercial television came along. Now it looks as if the Web will provide everything in the way of new experiences that Timothy Leary promised. JAMES ALEXANDER THOM Bloomington...