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Being told that sex with the network manager is the only way to get a new mouse pad at your workstation? Hop on the Internet and communicate with other victims of sexual harassment worldwide...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: The Internet: Democracy Potentate | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...freezer. Their home is comfy and welcoming, with wall-to-wall carpeting, a floral arrangement in the front window, wind chimes at the door and an illuminated sign hanging out the front. But the Sutherlands have no permanent zip code. No phone lines. They pay no property taxes. Their pad has wheels. It's a 35-ft., $65,000 Fleetwood Southwind, one of the thousands of recreational vehicles, or RVs, that Americans are calling home. "Oh, we have a home, all right," Sutherland likes to quip. "It just depends on where we are at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RV HAVING FUN YET? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...that killed 10 Americans. "Our record here has been far less threatening," concludes Blagov. Maybe. While the Russian space program claims only two deaths in its 36 years of operation, tight-lipped secrecy among military space program officials is thought to mask dozens of other deaths from launch pad explosions, rumors that are not likely to reassure NASA officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glass Houses | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...already assumed inferiority. Only at a campus like ours with such driven and motivated students would you find people willing to work 40 hours a week--on a volunteer basis--just for the opportunity to say they worked at this place or that one for a summer and to pad their resumes even more. Why are we so much more concerned with doing something that "looks good" for the summer than other college students around the country seem...

Author: By Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, | Title: Dx: Summer Anxiety | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

Five minutes with David Sedaris are enough to confirm that most everything in Naked is true. He reenacts his old nervous tics one by one, rolling his eyes incredibly far back in his head, and stipulating that the pen resting on my pad be exactly parallel to the edge of the table. He admits that if he had gotten into Harvard, he'd have been "the biggest fucking snob you ever...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

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