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...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...
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...hopes, will underscore its main point: That Sun's Java never worked as promised, which meant Redmond had to write its own version. Of course, Microsoft's version is hardly cross-platform -- it runs only on Windows machines. "This is the classic Microsoft argument," says TIME technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "If their rivals are having problems it's because they can't cut it, not because of anything Microsoft did." What's unfortunate is that there's a little bit of truth in all of these allegations -- Java is notoriously unstable. But even if that's true, it doesn...
...Lyndon Johnson brought John Kennedy down to the L.B.J. ranch in Texas and, much to Kennedy's distaste, forced him to go out shooting deer. Urbanity recoiled at bloody, redneck crudeness. That's how the moment was interpreted at the time. Hunters belonged to the oaf class, Elmer Fudds who were dumb enough to be flimflammed by Bugs and Daffy: "Duck season! Wabbit season...
...Neither the administration nor the Republicans have the stomach for the profound cultural changes required to meet Kyoto's targets. "We're the environmental bad guys," says Elmer-DeWitt. "We need a fundamental rethink about how we produce and consume energy." After all, who'd want to be the candidate telling Americans they'll have to trade in their SUVs for battery-powered cars...