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Many parents seem similarly unable to turn their outrage about drug use into a clear and compelling message. When Marta, a willowy junior who sports a nose ring, was caught smoking pot on the street last spring, her mother arrived at the police station in a fury. "She just kept slapping me in the face, left and right," the 17-year-old remembers. But the anger only went so far. "My mom and I didn't tell my dad," Marta says. "He would have gone ballistic, and I would never get my car." Marta figures her mother thinks getting busted...
...revenues run over first by a bad economy and then by Japanese luxury models. "It was not just accidental sheer desire to build a vehicle," says Rick Ford, a senior vice president of Porsche, USA. "With this company we can ill afford an error." Porsche saw its U.S. sales nose-dive from a high...
...moderators who are paid to keep conversations lively. It uses nifty software that makes the chores of chat (editing, spell-checking, posting, filtering out bozos) easy. And it's free--subsidized by advertisers who know that folks tend to spend more time in bars and clubs than they do nose-deep in the Yellow Pages...
...kind of doofus-Armani effect, a huge unvented, shoulder-padded Frankenstein jacket and flopping trousers that gather at the ankles. Clinton's head, handsome from certain angles, took on a big-jawed Joe Palooka look if he turned slightly to the side; and then with knobby chin and brightening nose, he could seem a cross between W.C. Fields and Tip O'Neill--distinctly subcharismatic...
...seem to have either the chance or the inclination to get plugged in. Just ask Ralph Howell, a New Jersey pharmacologist, who got a Sega game player for his daughter Emily three years ago, when she was six. Emily loved the rollicking Sonic the Hedgehog but turned up her nose at a race-car program and one based on the hit flick Jurassic Park. "Anytime I brought home another game, she just wasn't interested," Howell says. He finally quit shopping...