Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sent a private message to a user he believed to be a 13-year-old girl from Los Angeles. Chatting from his office in Seattle, he offered to meet her in Los Angeles to "kiss, make out, play and stuff." After months of cyber foreplay--saying at one point that "he was going to be very careful since he could go to jail"--Naughton arranged to meet the girl at the pier in Santa Monica, Calif. What he encountered there was a tiny woman in tan overalls, silver butterfly hair clips and a backpack. But she was, in fact...
...want to know the new ending of the tale, stop reading. In fact, this would be a good point for its fans to stop watching. In the post-Soviet-era conclusion, a group of dissident critters escapes the farm and lives to witness its collapse and Napoleon's fall. We flash forward to see order and peace restored--by a handsome blond family of new human farmers. It's a tiny change, a couple of minutes in all, but a baffling one that squares with neither history nor Orwell's vision. Who are these interlopers? The Czars? Boris Yeltsin...
...create their own chat rooms or initiate sexually explicit talk. The suspect "needs to take the first step," says David Knowlton, deputy assistant director of the FBI. "Then we'll talk with him." Applin says he gave Naughton several opportunities to back out of their planned encounter; at one point, Applin even joked that he had told the L.A.P.D., FBI and CIA about the dirty pictures Naughton had put on display. The warning went unheeded...
...entirely convincing. A feminist activist in the 1960s and early '70s, she says she decided to pursue the book when she discovered that Einstein, a great icon of her youth in Compton, Calif., had had a child he might have forsaken. "It fascinated me from a psychological point of view," she says. "How did his daughter feel about being abandoned, especially by somebody who was so important to the culture...
...some point during Susan Faludi's epic journey into the heart of American manhood, Mike McNulty, maker of a documentary film about Waco, Texas, told her, "If you want to see what's happening in the stream of our society, go to the edges and look at what's happening there, and then you begin to have an understanding--if you know how a stream works--of what's going on in the middle...