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...Still, there are powerful incentives for NBC and TNT (owned by Time Warner, the parent of this web site) to make this league work. Even with diminished ratings, football offers one of the last true mass audiences that advertisers crave. And at least the pair will be losing money with their own pigskin...
...push to net-connect every school is an educational disaster in the making. Our schools are in crisis. Statistics prove what I see every day as a parent and a college educator. My wife and I have a constant struggle to get our young boys to master the basic skills they need and our schools hate to teach. As a college teacher, I see the sorry outcome: students who can't write worth a damn, who lack basic math and language skills. Our schools are scared to tell students to sit down and shut up and learn; drill it, memorize...
...never met one parent or teacher or student or principal or even computer salesman who claimed that insufficient data is the root of the problem. With an Internet connection, you can gather the latest stuff from all over, but too many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton...
Their fears became more important than the welfare of my son, for whom they were the legal guardians. If Michael had adopted our son alone, he would have been the only legal parent. If Michael were to die, what would have happened to Adam...
...doing live, nearly full-motion video has got a lot better lately, and plenty of places are doing a brisk business providing live peep shows online. I talked to Scott Hirsch, a budding Bob Guccione and the 33-year-old proprietor of DoMeLive.com and the Internet Video Group, its parent company. One of the bigger cybersex sellers, IVG employs three dozen women to, er, interact with men online. They work out of a 22,000-sq.-ft. "cyberbroadcast" facility in Pompano Beach, Fla., with all the facilities, including a gymnasium for its workers. The place cost $1.6 million. No problem...