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...five months and 22 days after I placed my order with Pac Bell, I had yet to experience the joys of DSL. My first six months in California were a haze of unrequited relationships with customer-service reps. Suffering long hours of Muzak attacks, I'd stay sane by doodling lists of alternative acronyms for the service. Destination Soulless Limbo. Definitely Something Lost. Do Stop Lagging...
...Almost all residential DSL companies in the U.S. rely on their local phone companies to build the equipment that turns an ordinary phone line into a DSL dynamo. None of them can get you up and running any faster, which is why I've been sticking it out with Pac Bell all this time. If I canceled my order and went to a competitor, I'd effectively be starting over in the same queue...
Thus a complicated family dynamic became a legal struggle. And a public event--the Lipscombs insisted on turning their child over to social workers before cameras at a local TV-news station. (The parents say the media scrutiny will keep the children's services office in check.) Gender PAC, a Washington-based group that lobbies for equality for transgendered people, has also helped publicize the case. Transgender activists around the world have contacted the county children's agency in protest. A growing media circus greets each court development. Last week the child's case was stalled while everyone argued...
...variant children by trying to force them to conform to gender rules. They use blunt behavior-modification techniques such as rewarding tomboys for wearing frilly dresses or punishing effeminate boys for playing with a Barbie. "Many of those kids become runaways, and they are damaged for life," says Gender PAC's Riki Anne Wilchins...
...schedule factor alone that put UCLA at No. 2 in the BCS rankings for most of 1998. That year the Bruins had one of the worst defenses statistically in Div 1-A, and they struggled to beat both Stanford and Oregon St., the two cellar teams in the Pac-10 that year. For those and other reasons, both major polls had UCLA ranked below the other two undefeated teams at the time, Kansas St. and Tennessee. But the BCS enabled UCLA to be No. 2 in the country, and only a few hundredths of a point away from...