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...Carnegie Mellon reports may be more apparent than real. Those 1 million or 2 million people who download pictures from the Internet represent a self-selected group with an interest in erotica. The Sex in America respondents, by contrast, were a few thousand people selected to represent a cross section of all America...
...moved quickly out of the secretarial ranks, though, and into a position as a science researcher. In 1982, when Time launched its new Computers section, Elmer-DeWitt became its first writer. "I'm not sure if it was my writing skill that got me the job, or the fact that I'd done some programming on summer jobs during high school and college...
...Wesley Methodist Church and felt Godwas listening when I sang my favorite hymn,"Surely The Presence of the Lord is in ThisPlace." Darwin had always given me something tothink about, though, and taking E.O. Wilson'sclass on evolutionary biology my first semesterinadvertently gave me greater pause. And inChaucer section, discussing the socialmachinations of the Church in the Middle Ages onlyfanned the fires of doubt. There was more to itthan that, of course, but certainly I was growingdiscouraged. Going to services at Harvard-Epworth,the only Methodist church in Cambridge, did notquite restore confidence, particularly as thepastor frequently made references...
...York Times op-ed page. A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler, an unparalleled expert on poetry, writes for the New Yorker and other publications. The author of the recent book "Soul Says," Vendler is also a contributor to the New York Times Sunday Book Review section. (In June, Vendler reviewed Bill Moyer's new book, "A Festival of Poets...
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literatue and Language Jill McCorkle also recently published a collection of stories in a book titled "Crash Diet." McCorkle, too, publishes reviews in the Times' Sunday book section...