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Internet radio is a godsend for listeners whose tastes run too eccentric for the MTV Total Request Live navel-exposure set. Whether you hum merengue music in the shower or brush your teeth in rhythm to German techno, there's an online channel that offers what you want. Finding a station that matches your interests at a site like Sonicnet.com is like finding a date in the personal ads. All you have to do is scan the list of descriptions, and eventually you'll find the one that's approximately right for you. Globetrotter? To start, there's "African Experience...
...never got my license. I think it was a combination of being really busy during high school and growing up in New York City, a place where alternate-side-of-the-street parking and deranged drivers can make having a car more of a nightmare than a godsend...
...licenses in order to prevent identity-theft crimes. Yet states sometimes sell their databases to anyone who can afford to pay for them, and no one knows how your face print will be used then. The videocam in missing intern Chandra Levy's hallway would have been a godsend to investigators if it hadn't already taped over the crucial segment by the time they got their hands on it. But few people want cameras out on the street filming hundreds of people who might be guilty only of association with the wrong crowd. In Tampa, the city council...
...HOMEWORK The information highway is an educational godsend. But for growing numbers of college students, the lures of the Net backfire, according to a study in the Journal of Communication. Trouble arises when students become hooked on the "live" Net of instant messaging, chat rooms and gaming. Students who felt Internet use had hurt their schoolwork were logged on to the live Net 10 times as long as were their peers...
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