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...switching E-mail addresses and installing new software as well. The most lucrative service in the future, however, may be hooking up businesses to the Net. Currently most consumers access the Internet through their inexpensive plain old telephone line, which cannot handle much information quickly. By contrast, many businesses link to the Internet through specialized T1 lines. Although they can cost up to $30,000 a year, T1 lines can handle enormous amounts of data at very high speeds. "If AT&T can put 50 million consumers on their network, then every business in America is going to want...
Pompous, New York Times reading, out of touch, excessively talented, soon to be cuff-link wearing, over-achievers. If you wander out of the capsule of academia, you'll find that's what a lot of people think about Harvard students...
...acts as the link between the student body and the professional staff...
...brittle, plucky sister and especially to a lonely boy named Ben and his dog Otis, another creature whose life is on hold. In the end there are resolutions, but the reader may want to postpone them. McCauley's particular skill lies in his grasp of the bonds that link straights and gays in the maze of life's daily dealings. There sexual preference counts a lot less than goodwill and a hardy knack for survival...
Even if true, the exact nature and extent of that link is unclear. Is the effect of watching TV violence brief or lasting? Is TV as important a factor in fostering societal violence as economic poverty, bad schools and broken homes? And in any event, is it really possible--or desirable--to manage kids' exposure to a cultural environment that can never be entirely beneficial or benign? From gangster movies in the '30s to horror comics and rock 'n' roll in the '50s, pop culture has always been strewn with pitfalls for youngsters. Sheltering kids from such things is largely...