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...Waves of shock have spread around campus this fall as students dialing the "Menu Man" have heard strange voices on the other end of the line...
...didn't actually get to go because of my bio lab, but nonetheless I find the whole concept quite astounding. To understand my shock, you would have to see it all in light of what I saw this past summer...
Your article "Free Music Online" [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR TECHNOLOGY, Sept. 21] was a shock. It clearly implied that pirating music off the Internet is O.K. It is not. It is theft, pure and simple. Providing, as you have, a "how-to" guide compounds the offense by giving the weak and misguided a rationale for their infringements: "Hey, everyone is doing it. I learned how in TIME magazine." You really should know better. PETER R. HAJE, Executive Vice President and General Counsel Time Warner Inc. New York City...
Still, surgeons who perform radical, headline-grabbing operations know the value of good publicity. So it was something of a shock to an international team poised to perform the world's first successful hand transplant to discover that they had chosen a man with a record as long, so to speak...
Several Amazonian tribes get their fair share of screen time. Yes, they help the heroes find new specimens and herbs, but they are also there for the shock value: Who wouldn't be surprised, if not alarmed, at the sight of a man's lower lip pierced with something that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to a stick of bamboo? There is a feeble attempt to enrich the viewer's historical understanding of the discovery of and relations with various tribes, but pay no attention to it. Most people will probably ignore it anyway...