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...advertisements for an action movie throughout the day, and will be suspicious when they sit down to watch it that night and see a blank screen. At the same time, these daytime teaser ads will undoubtedly become more common, as networks find that they are losing a good portion of their viewing audience to the little black box behind the television...
Thus two-thirds of all working-age disabled people are still unemployed--the same portion that was jobless when the law was passed. True, many of the 7 million Americans with severe impairments are reluctant to take jobs, knowing they risk losing government subsidies and, more crucially, health benefits. Still, for those who want to work, the obstacles remain formidable. Says Jo Holzer of the Council for Disability Rights: "Many employers hear our name and decide they simply aren't going to talk to our clients...
...connection with the new University Campaign, I received the University's latest plea, its cassette tape, "Harvard College, the Connection We Share," with more dismay than usual. My apprehension, however, soon yielded to curiosity; I opened the tape to examine its list of contents. Imagine my shock, in the portion of the tape devoted to "Teaching and Learning," at seeing the name of the professor who had achieved notoriety on campus and in the national press during my own undergraduate years for his sexual harassment of women in the government department...
Civil libertarians were outraged. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, complained that the indecency portion of the bill would transform the vast library of the Internet into a children's reading room, where only subjects suitable for kids could be discussed. "It's government censorship," said Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "The First Amendment shouldn't end where the Internet begins...
...Sausalito, California-based Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, one of the first and best-known online gathering places. Having seen what havoc anonymity can create, the well's creators decided to make every poster accountable for his or her messages. Years later, some well users asked that a portion of the system be set aside for anonymous discussions, arguing that it would allow people to speak more freely about volatile topics. "It was shut down within a week by acclamation," says Brand. "The pathology was exactly what FakeMail encourages-people pretended to be other people and mocked each other viciously, free...