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...problem has become. The Omaha neighborhood of Benson, a tidy grid of suburban-style homes on the northwest side, has been taken by surprise. Three dozen shaken parents and troubled teenagers gathered on a rainy Tuesday night in May at the Benson Community Center, bracing for summer's onslaught and groping for solid ground in a world where cruising can include drive-by shootings and where a semiautomatic handgun can be the most exciting thing in a boy's life, the 1990s equivalent of a shiny new bicycle. "My son was shot last summer," announces Chris Messick, a mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...Diller, the transaction will provide QVC with the financial strength to withstand an onslaught of new competition from big department stores like R.H. Macy and Nordstrom, all of which have announced plans to enter the home- shopping business. Combined, QVC and HSN will generate about $147 million in annual cash flow, which would come in handy to finance Diller's dream of taking TV shopping to its next evolutionary stage: making it interactive. An advanced interactive system would let viewers browse through a sort of "video catalog" of a store's merchandise and place orders on-line and on-screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attention TV Shoppers | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...come to his own defense. Though he admits he conducted cyberrelationships with more than one woman at a time, he insists he is the victim in this matter. "I feel my privacy was radically violated," he says of the women's electronic onslaught. "I didn't make any relationship promises I didn't keep." In the bulletin-board free-for-all, he wrote, "I believe that I was supportive, caring and tender with these women. I gave as good as I got." He adds, "I was experimenting in a new area for me. I didn't think that the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heartbreak In Cyberspace | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

Standing brazenly among the honored guests, personifying the very tragedy ^ Wiesel condemned, was Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. His Croat brethren had just begun a vicious onslaught of "ethnic cleansing" in western Bosnia, burning villages and villagers in one of the cruelest campaigns of the war. "Whole valleys of people have been massacred here," a British peacekeeper on the scene reported. "It's horrendous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Something . . . Anything | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...strategist of Sunday's march, Mixner wanted to ensure that it would & not turn into an attack on the President, whatever his perceived shortcomings. Still, Mixner believes that gays must maintain pressure to counter the onslaught from the religious right. "When Clinton was elected," he says, "we were a fan club. We are not a fan club anymore. We are in an alliance that will not be comfortable at all times. We will hold our friend's feet to the fire." Like many gays, Mixner sees Clinton as offering more sympathy than empathy. They perceive a President who is repulsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Marching Together | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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