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This escape from reality (like a more traditional favorite, drugs) can cause problems back in the real world. For six percent of Internet users, according to a study of 18000 users last year, the Web is a plug-in hallucinogen, a refuge from reality and an addiction. The psychological symptoms of this addiction, according to the study, include loneliness, low self-esteem and depression...
...service and moored just off Sausalito, Calif., in San Francisco Bay. But his real home is the virtual world of the Net, an insight he achieved while hunched over a laptop in a hotel bathroom in Bhurban, Pakistan (the john being the only place where he could plug in his modem). He was logged onto the Web, fiddling with a line of code for one of his company's main computers, when the epiphany came: "This works! The Internet has happened! I'm placeless...
...destruction explode from 25 large movie screens to the accompaniment of cunning fire and water effects. Spider-Man jumps onto the hood of the scoop, Doctor Octopus shakes it like a gorilla with a new toy, Hobgoblin tosses flaming pumpkins, Electro makes malefic use of a giant socket plug, Hydro Man spritzes everyone, and the scoop plummets what feels like hundreds of feet from the sky into concrete canyons that suddenly seem grand--Grand Guignol, that is. By the happy-ending salvation in a giant spiderweb, this out-of-body, out-of-mind experience reduces cynical theme parkers to burbling...
...speaks both to the networks' faith in Kelley and their desperation that Fox would take his clever syndication idea and use it to plug up its schedule. "The rest of the world is running South Park all week," says Fox Entertainment president Doug Herzog. "This is the way people watch TV now. We're no longer in control. The viewer is in control." Maybe one day. But for now, Kelley...
...Selleck went on the Rosie O'Donnell show last week to plug his new movie, The Love Letter. Instead he co-starred in a little drama that was more like Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. After a hug and a few niceties, she broached the topic of firearms, and what ensued wasn't exactly friendly fire...