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...site is missing a search and comments page. Though these are more complex to pro-gram, they effectively make a good site into a great one. www.fas.harvard.edu/~hnguyen...
...have thought that giving away free home pages would make GeoCities one of the most trafficked sites on the Internet? It even beat out the second-ranked search service Excite in some studies. Yet, for all its traffic, will GeoCities actually make any money selling ads on those users' pages? Who, after all, wants to advertise on Claudia Lake's Goth haven? Lots of folks, apparently...
Back in Minnesota, Buster Johnson reruns his grandson's childhood in his head--rewinding again and again in search of an answer. "I've been trying to think and think, and I can't come up with anything that makes sense," he says. During Mitchell's visits, he often hung out with Buster at his Spring Valley-area meat-processing plant, displaying no untoward fascination with the instruments at hand. "I felt comfortable with him there," says Buster. "He would trim hamburger, but he was never reckless with knives." He does not believe that his son Scott's long-distance...
Juvenile mass murderers. Fledgling psychopaths. Among the experts, the search for a new vocabulary is well under way. Psychologists are wary of speculating about specific causes in the Jonesboro killings--violence at home? A history of serious mental disturbance?--until a fuller picture emerges of the two boys and their circumstances. But on the question of how the larger ground is prepared, meaning the psychological terrain that might make a kid capable of killing, the professionals share the assumptions of most parents. These days Mom and Dad are not always home much. The extended family of the past is gone...
...exploration hot spots include the newly independent nations around the Caspian Sea and offshore West Africa. This diversification acts as an insurance policy against supply disruptions. The growing role of natural gas in the overall energy mix provides a further buffer. Information technology has also allowed the industry to search for oil and make a profit at $15 per bbl., about half the threshold of just a decade ago. For example, the industry has adapted the computer-visualization techniques Hollywood used in movies like Jurassic Park for 3-D seismic visualization of potential reserves deep underground...