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They won't be alone. Nearly two-dozen CD-ROMs aimed at preteen girls will be released this fall by companies with names like Girl Games and Her Interactive. It's a market that has been all but ignored in favor of the seemingly bottomless appetite of boys and young men for so-called twitch games, like the bloody, light-speed shoot-'em-ups Quake and Doom. Why the sudden interest in what young women may want? In a word: Barbie. Mattel last fall released a disc called Barbie Fashion Designer that was a runaway best seller, proving once...
...film in 1977. I thought the scenes dragged in comparison to the manic action of today's sci-fi extravaganzas. I realized that not a single adult in the theater felt the way he did when he saw the movie for the first time. Not a single preteen managed to make it through without suppressing some yawns. The story of the good guys' triumph is too slow for the MTV attention span. So much has changed since 1977, when I sat between my parents watching the original! KENT MAY Idyllwild, California...
...circuit, with pageants sponsored by the likes of Hawaiian Tropic and Beauty Unlimited held in shopping malls and hotel ballrooms. According to Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, there are about 3,000 pageants a year in the U.S., 500 of which cater to the preteen-and-under set. Children could compete every weekend, if they and their parents had the energy and resources. "There's a new pageant popping up all the time," says V. J. LaCour, publisher of Pageant Life, a Sacramento quarterly with a circulation of 60,000. "The reason for their existence...
...which I now call almost all my female friends. As my parents intended, my name sets me apart from the mainstream. There has never been another Chana in my class (although a Harvard classmate spells it Hanna). This uniqueness made it harder to blend in when I was a preteen and wanted to disappear into a crowd. But now that I'm older and value individuality, I appreciate the merits of not being just another Mary or Susan...
...Never mind the fact that Cambridge is equipped with its own historical landmarks, theaters, and neighborhoods. An anthology of tales about eight-hour organic chemistry labs, lunches in the Pit with preteen skinheads and idle afternoons lingering over coffee and croissants at Au Bon Pain, do not a complete Harvard Summer School Extension student make...