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...sell products to consumers. Unlike TV or radio, the Net offers a very personal way to contact the audience. Some people are particularly vulnerable to email and chatroom conversations with folks they may meet in the intimate setting of the computer screen in their own den or bedroom. In that sense, the Net offers the same sort of intrusive contact with people in their homes that has made telemarketing a multibillion-dollar business. Just as lonely people often are vulnerable to pitchmen who call them at home, some maladjusted or immature people are unusually receptive to online conversations with strangers...
...sell products to consumers. Unlike TV or radio, the Net offers a very personal way to contact the audience. Some people are particularly vulnerable to email and chatroom conversations with folks they may meet in the intimate setting of the computer screen in their own den or bedroom...
Sitting around a conference table in the den of the city's top brass, 17 teenagers were yakking about sneakers, CK perfume and how they were going to straighten out Boston's inner-city neighborhoods...
Mathews says "Jewelbox" has transformed her room into a veritable den of procrastination...
...Senate floor. But this year the bill's other co-sponsor, Tennessee's Fred Thompson, happens to be the man who will preside over the Senate hearings. So the President made sure he sided with his putative prosecutor last week. He went straight into the lion's den--to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee--to praise the bill as "tough," "balanced" and "credible." He warned that "delay will mean the death of reform," which not long ago would have sounded like wishful thinking...