Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life were separated somewhat at birth: While Jim Carrey's Truman was born right on cue, producers of the real-life baby Sean's birth battled a few glitches. They included one of the oddest pregnancy complications ever: server trouble. Access to the the AHN site was difficult if not impossible as would-be watchers clogged the lines. Some 300,000 people tried to log in to the site, which was set up to handle only about 10,000. Which is probably just as well: Doctors had to induce labor. Perhaps this baby was suffering from stage fright...
...always been good company people in a sturdy and steady company town--until about 10 years ago. Willar had worked his way up to the position of engineer, proudly receiving excellent evaluations. Josephine, a senior computer programmer, relished her white-collar job. Their employer was the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., a sprawling nuclear-processing plant where the Federal Government stores some 35 million gal. of radioactive waste. It was the largest employer in South Carolina, and the jobs paid well. The Hightowers saw themselves as team players, partakers in the co-prosperity of a racially segregated but placid...
...cause, anxiety levels are higher now that the couple has become a driving force in the lawsuit against Westinghouse, charging that blacks, who constitute about 22% of the 11,500 employees, have systematically been denied promotions and been kept at the most hazardous jobs. Only 400 of the site's 2,500 minority employees have joined the Hightowers. "There are a lot of us who are afraid to step in," says an African-American worker who would identify himself only as a production operator. "We support them, but if they lose that suit, we think it's going...
...Note: I do not do this or condone it, at any reputable retail site where your name and address are collected along with your credit-card number. The sites that get my business have written privacy policies that assure me that my information remains in-house and confidential...
...protection of kids that most concerns the commission. A number of sites try to trick children into giving their names and addresses and worse. One unidentified "child-directed" site, according to the report, even asked each visiting kid "whether he or she has received gifts in the form of stock, cash, savings bonds, mutual funds or certificates of deposit." It also wanted to know if the parents owned mutual funds. To which I say, Any child who knows that is probably not a child...