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...gasp of disbelief across the Internet was almost audible Oct. 11, when Texas Gov. George W. Bush announced in the second presidential debate that the Web had caused the Columbine killings. In opposing restrictions on gun sales, Bush noted that today's culture allowed a child to "have their heart turned dark as a result of being on the Internet and walk in and decide to take somebody else's life." Vice President Al Gore '69, gloomy and brooding in his second-debate coma, failed to challenge this position, and both candidates later seemed to agree with a measure...
...open-office design for its new digs near the university in Ithaca, N.Y. Sims heard the same struggle unfolding in each: the top manager was committed to the cool look that identified the outfit as a successful new-economy type; the employees were demanding offices with walls and, gasp, doors. The manager of the first group was "worried," says Sims, "that 'if I force them too much, they'll go down the road.'" The founder of the second company, Sims reports, felt staffers could "'like it or lump...
...knew that milk was so scandalous! Once considered the trustiest of drinks (except to the 90% of the Asian population that is lactose intolerant; sorry kids), suddenly milk has become scrutinized, controversial, even-gasp-dangerous! It all seems like backlash to those ubiquitous "Got Milk?" ads that tell us so bluntly that if we don't drink milk, then we can't have iron pecs like Mark Maguire or shoulders like Serena Williams (read the fine print at the bottom: "Milk is part of a complete, healthy breakfast. Including steroid supplements.") Let's see what spawned all the Moloko Madness...
...classic rock sounds with an ever-present Celtic hook, the Young Dub's fourth album, Red, does kick some serious booty. In a music industry where the word "eclectic" is becoming re-defined as the alternate use of the words "baby" and "ain't," the Young Dubs not only (gasp!) play their own instruments, but prove just what it should mean to be eclectic as they alternate from laid-back chill rock like the title track to the get-down-in-the-"jig pit" (the Dubs' version of a mosh pit) of "What Do You Want From...
...Fogg revisits the work that shocked the art world in 1970 with an exhibition of Philip Guston's (gasp!) figurative paintings