Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just what is The List? Some of you may have heard about it before, perhaps when you were awakened by it's message on your computer screen...
...could the computer screen's cold glare ever replace a therapist's caring gaze? It may be hard to imagine, but for a growing number of people dissatisfied with traditional talk therapy, the convenience and anonymity of the Internet beat $100 sessions on the couch hands down. After all, if people are willing to bare their innermost feelings to a newfound love online, why not discuss deep-seated anxieties that way as well? Some 150 counselors listed on the website metanoia.org/imhs offer online therapy by videoconferencing, e-mail or live chat. Skeptics say the lack of nonverbal cues makes...
Morgan Hildreth, 24, jerks back from the keyboard as a loud burst of automatic gunfire erupts on his computer screen. "I got somebody!" shouts a nearby player, as a body explodes in a red mist. Around them, a few dozen spectators in baggy T shirts and oversize shoes watch in a trance as grown men with joysticks stalk one another through underground mazes, firing guns and blowing one another to bits. When chunks of bloody body parts thump to the ground, some of the onlookers laugh out loud. "This is gonna sell like hot cakes," chortles...
Yesterday morning I received a form-letter message on my e-mail telling me that someone in the class of 1999 wanted a piece of me. I perused it twice in utter disbelief, and then I left it on the screen, like an unopened, hand-written letter without a return address...
According to one source, the pornographic material was found on Thiemann's Harvard-owned computer by technicians servicing the machine. The source said Thiemann had left material on the screen...