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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joan Webster, then 28, disappeared that night. She was spotted at a luggage at Boston's Logan Airport but has not been seen or heard from since...

Author: By Andrew C. Kerp, | Title: The Nightmare Continues | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...last time, for their daughter, Joan L. Webster, was Nov. 28, 1981. Terry and George said good-bye to Joan, who was home for a Thanksgiving visit and she, a second-year student at the Graduate School of Design, took an Eastern Airlines flight back to Boston...

Author: By Andrew C. Kerp, | Title: The Nightmare Continues | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...know that the friends of hers I interviewed could easily recall a story to explain home of the ways Joan had touched them. "We lived together during our first year (at the GSD)." one friend said. "During the first week, I was lost, but Joan had already learned everyone's name, where they had group up, all about them...

Author: By Andrew C. Kerp, | Title: The Nightmare Continues | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

Shortly after she was reported missing, about 30 of Joan's friends spent several weekends canvassing New England with information about the search. They had hoped, and Joan's parents continue to hope, that publicity may encourage one of the people who knows why Joan disappeared to contact police...

Author: By Andrew C. Kerp, | Title: The Nightmare Continues | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...psychology department at U.C.L.A., occurred at a Los Angeles nursery school. Margaret Mead might have described the scene as a tribal rite of the global village; Marshall McLuhan might cite it as proof that the medium is indeed the message. But to Professor Feshbach as well as to Joan Anderson Wilkins, a researcher on family issues, it was not a symbol but an illustration of something more portentous: television addiction. Those nursery-school students are video junkies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Getting Unplugged | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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