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...other side of the issue, mothers of "queen bees" should be very specific with their daughters that the same rules for treating people decently face-to-face also apply to IM-ing or phoning. These moms should also consider controlling access to these weapons of lass destruction by removing conference-calling and call-waiting features and limiting time on the computer. And they should caution their girls against using incendiary language, which is a huge temptation with IM-ing; the word slut is the current favorite pejorative. Girls who know exactly what the rules are will get that "my mom...
...there are some problems. The one that hit the news last week is the fee structure. Many of these "stations" are geeky mom-and-pop operations that don't charge for their music and don't pay for it either, an arrangement the record labels are trying to rectify by imposing a royalty of fourteen-hundredths of a cent per song per listener. That may not sound like much, but it's enough to drive the small guys out of business. Last Wednesday a few hundred of them tried to draw attention to their plight by going silent...
...home of Michele Lanza, whose family has not figured out how to tell her bright-eyed son Nicholas, 7, that his mother is never coming back. Granted intimate access over 10 days, Whitney finds the Lanzas overwhelmed by emotional stress and circling to protect Nicholas--who tells himself his mom is lost in New Jersey or in a helicopter...
...news, the moment is raw, discomfitingly private yet strangely mediated: we eavesdrop from the vantage point of the therapist, brought in to coach Robert, who is listening Cyrano-like over headphones on the front lawn of the Lanza house. Nicholas is overwhelmed by tears and confusion--he wants his mom back, he wants a new mom, he wants to go to the local dollar store, he wants to pray, he's afraid of dying. And yet within moments he collects himself and consoles his grandmother. We see him get stronger, if not better. It is a familiar triteness...
...CANDICE OLSON (FORMERLY CARPENTER) CEO of the women's website iVillage, Olson, now 50, left in 2000 to act as full-time mom to her children, 7 and 8. "Being a CEO is hell," she said. Her dotcom's stock was already sinking with the market...