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...Knock-knock from coolkid6492," read the headline on an AOL instant message (IM) window that popped up on my computer screen at 3:42 p.m. last Tuesday. "Hey, I'm a 19/f/Ca. Wanna come check me out?" I had a pretty good idea of what Coolkid had in mind. But just to make sure, I clicked on the Web link embedded in the IM and was promptly directed to an X-rated website, where I was invited to pay "just $1 a month" to watch women get naked in front of a webcam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: You've Got Spim! | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...were a little too emotional,” said Bears coach Roger Grillo. “I thought we came out, we were trying to hit everybody and knock [everyone] down, and guys did a bunch of undisciplined things...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Overtime Goal Propels Brown Past M. Hockey | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...American and Delta just started giving away tickets to counter JetBlue's recent expansion. But the most dramatic escalation of the air war is the creation of two totally new airlines. Next month United, which has been in bankruptcy since December 2002, plans to start flying its own knock-off low-fare airline called Ted. Flying initially from Denver to Las Vegas and Fort Lauderdale, it will offer customers a multichannel entertainment system called Ted TV. Ted is aimed squarely at Frontier, the low-cost airline that has eaten away at United's dominance in flights out of Denver. Frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendlier Skies | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...that Nader articulated for his candidacy three years ago. In a campaign speech delivered barely a month before the 2000 general election, he declared that “the only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door...

Author: By Adam T. Thomas, | Title: Sit This One Out, Ralph | 1/21/2004 | See Source »

HERMAPHRODITES Changing sexes is one thing; being both sexes at once is quite another. Hermaphrodites abound in the animal kingdom: how sensible to be able to mate with whoever happens to knock on the door! Among those that can truly swing both ways are the sea slug, the earthworm and the European giant garden slug. The black hamlet fish is the rare vertebrate in which members of a mating pair can take turns being male or female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Animal Attraction | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

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