Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she first joined ECHO, an East Coast electronic community, Marcia Bowe dubbed herself ``Miss Outer Buro 1991,'' a handle that facetiously implied beauty queen-like poise, glamour, congeniality. And soon enough, Bowe was enjoying the adulation of fellow ``ECHOids'' who posted messages praising her wit, candor and smarts. Such celebrity was heady stuff for Bowe, a free-lance writer who describes herself in real life as shy and wary of emotional encounters. ``I became addicted to this constant stream of approval,'' she says. ``It was like a big co-dependency machine.'' As Bowe began spending up to 100 hours...
...real.'' Denizens of virtual villages respond that what they have constructed is as real as anything three-dimensional. ``The online world is not utopia,'' says ECHO founder Stacy Horn. ``We take all our problems, needs, strangeness, biases and prejudices online with us.'' In short, members take themselves along for the ride. ``People who have troubles with their friends in the real world think they'll come online and have lots of friends, and it's not true,'' says Horn. ``They have equal trouble establishing friendships in cyberspace.'' In most online communities, the esprit is fiercely democratic. When crises arise, they...
...this is war, the U.S. is doing a lot of business with the enemy. As threats of sanctions and reprisals still echo across the Pacific, Washington is striving to keep the battle over China's theft of intellectual property from further denting the two nations' trade relationship, now worth about $47 billion. One clear signal is Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary's plan to fly to Beijing next week with a delegation of American businessmen who expect to sign deals worth as much as $8 billion. Another is the U.S.'s decision to go ahead with the sale...
Several campus groups made presentations at the conference. Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) and Response sponsored workshops, and Calling It Rape performed...
...ECHO representative Nhi-ha Trinh '96, who led a workshop on eating disorders, said the discussion became very personal...