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Starfire soccer is a welcome change from the usual testosterone-charged kicking, punching, punting video sports games. Not surprisingly, it's from Purple Moon, purveyor of CD-ROMS designed for 8-to-12-year-old girls. Starfire players spend a lot of time grappling with such emotionally charged issues as how to deal with ball hogs and feuding friends. Players eventually get to practice heading and dribbling. The one thing they don't do is play much soccer...
That wasn't the case at Nini's newsstand, purveyor of newspapers, naughty magazines and wide selection of cigarettes...
...know I carry importance not only because I see it in myself, but because it is evident in the eyes of others. Students look to me as a leader and purveyor of wisdom; professors regard with me awe. I'll never forget how Dean Epps looked at me as the Yard grounds crew took down my toilet paper installation hours before Commencement. "What you did here today is indescribable", he said. "I don't even know what to say". He had a note of reverence in his voice he must reserve only for heads of state and geniuses...
...case grew out of a 1996 Customs bust of a San Jose, Calif., child-pornography ring called the Orchid Club. A pedophile who began cooperating with agents identified an online purveyor of child porn in England. The information was passed to British investigators, who arrested four child exploiters and molesters. In May, London tipped U.S. Customs to the existence of the Wonderland Club. U.S. agents tried surfing into Wondernet but failed to gain entry. They discovered that after the Orchid Club busts, Wonderland, whose members include computer programmers and hardware specialists, deployed an imposing system of codes and encryption. "They...
...largest purveyor of rapid detox is the Center for the Investigation and Treatment of Addiction, which pioneered the technique and opened its first clinic in Israel in 1993. It has since expanded and changed hands several times, franchising clinics in several countries and treating thousands of addicts--to a drumbeat of criticism. The British medical journal Lancet, for one, has blasted CITA for exploiting "the hopes and fears of opioid addicts and their families [and] for making exaggerated claims...