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...never joined MOD, he was happy to share his knowledge with them. Under his tutelage, they learned how to seize control of a telephone account and alter services at will. One trick: turning a rival's home telephone into a pay phone, so that whenever his parents tried to dial a number an operator would interrupt to say, "Please deposit 25 cents...
...somewhere on the dial you can find liberals (like Mike Malloy of Atlanta's WSB), black nationalists (including several hosts on New York's WLIB) and a few leftists. Tammy Bruce, a lesbian feminist and head of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW, works weekends on Los Angeles' KFI. Jim Hightower, a folksy, funny Texas populist who is nearly as quick to criticize Clinton as he is the right wing, graces 180 stations...
...government spending, public TV seems to many a frill that can be eliminated with relatively little pain. What's more, TV has changed markedly since the Public Broadcasting Service was created in 1969. Back then, PBS was the only alternative to the three commercial networks. Now the cable dial is filled with channels like Discovery, Arts & Entertainment and Nickelodeon, which offer similar programming...
There's new evidence that "parental control" button on the America Online and Prodigy dial-up services may more important than some parents thought. The Vienna, Va.-based America Online has announced that the FBI is investigating a "small number of people" who have used the system's E-mail to transmit child pornography, after about a dozen AOL members who received the dirty pictures recently lodged complaints. AOL president Steve Case said that AOL contacted the FBI and terminated the individual accounts as soon as it learned of the abuses.Of special concern is the threat that some users...
Teenage angst is all over the dial, from sitcoms to Beverly Hills, 90210, but this series from the creators of thirty-something is the only one that seems to get it right. Claire Danes is super as the introspective 15-year-old who makes us remember what it was like to be, like...