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William lucks into his on-the-road adventure with the rock quartet Stillwater, and is adopted as their chronicler and mascot. At 15 he could be the poster child for a dark odyssey of sexual and pharmacological abuse; his mother could be right when she blurts out, "Rock stars have kidnapped my son." But William and the film are too savvy for that. People use one another here, but genially, and in small doses. On this cross-country trek, everyone is, benignly, lost in poppyland. It's Oz without the wizard...
...while daydreaming during an economics lecture--and haven't we all?--in 1998 that China's Olympic poster girl realized that diving could actually be fun. She missed the water, the exhilaration of soaring through the air and sliding into the tank with barely a ripple. "Taking a break took the pressure off diving," she says. "It made me realize that I loved the sport and that I could do it on my own terms...
...particularly sensitive about someone standing next to a water cooler and griping about someone else," says Blake Bell, a New York lawyer and editor of a website called CyberSecuritiesLaw. "But these messages go out to so many people that they're very concerned." Although the sites give their posters--who generally use pseudonyms--a feeling of anonymity, they're usually not anonymous at all. Faced with a subpoena, most sites will readily divulge a poster's name to the authorities. And that's something a good off-line work pal would never...
...over whether cybershoppers will ever turn to Amazon for big-ticket items. "Beyond books, music and videos, it's unclear whether they have a sustainable business," says Alan Alper, an analyst at e-commerce watchdog Gomez Advisors. Which raises a horrifying prospect for all e-tailing: Is the poster child for the new economy in danger of being dragged under...
...quick leave from his base when a plane arrived to fly him to Washington for a date with Tricia Nixon. But if he was using the Guard to avoid more onerous military service, the Guard was not above using the famous son as well. He was their antidrug poster boy: "George Walker Bush is one member of the younger generation who doesn't get his kicks from pot or hashish or speed," read a 1970 press release. "Oh, he gets high all right, but not from narcotics... As far as kicks are concerned, Lt. Bush gets his from the roaring...