Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explains that the prime time for viewing is usually around midnight, when people are going to sleep. "That's just the one time when everyone has to get naked, and when I'm sitting at my desk looking out the window. It's so much more interesting to see someone walk perfectly unashamed across their common room and check their e-mail in the nude than to check your own e-mail...
...does she get any work done? "Well, eventually people are mostly all asleep--there are a few that stay up, but it's less of a prime-time atmosphere. Also, it's really interesting, but it's not, like, really amazing. If there were a ton of hotties in Matthews, I might get more obsessed with it. But really, it's no swooning-and-passing-out-over-your-homework material. Just neat to watch. It sort of makes my skin crawl." Ours...
...this technology, which is expanding at a rapid pace, such a prime political feeding ground? The main reason is that the Internet is vastly overrated by those who know nothing about it. The Internet seems futuristic--it comes with trendy catch-phrases such as "information superhighway" and "cyberspace." We listen in awe and wonder as CEOs explain to us, in layman's terms, the importance of "networking" and "global resources." With the Internet, they tell us, we can do everything conceivable with the stroke of a few keys. It will make our lives easier. How? Don't know. It just...
Beijing and Taiwan are always baring their fangs at each other, but usually over matters of war and diplomacy, not teeth. But Wednesday saw China's government furiously denying that Taiwan owns a prime relic: one of the teeth of the Buddha...
Maybe so. Of course, pro wrestling has enthusiastic fans as well and it's not exactly considered prime real estate for advertisers. GeoCities is "not getting a Wall Street Journal demographic," agrees Peter Storck, head ad analyst at Jupiter Communications. "It remains to be seen how valuable the ad space around amateur content...