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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parents can attempt to discourage tattooing and piercing by explaining the health risks of infection or blood-borne diseases, but remember that kids are armed with something grownups will never have--the invincible confidence of youth. That is what makes them such good skateboarders and roller-coaster riders. So after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Not Tattoo? | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Some parents don't mind tattoos. I know a mother and teenage daughter who went to a studio recently to get matching ankle designs. Parents who don't approve, however, are now getting some help from laws in 30 states that prohibit studios from tattooing minors without parental consent. Nineteen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Not Tattoo? | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

My cousin Aaron--he of the wallpaper tattoos--concurs. Aaron, who was tattooed after he turned 18, said, "When I think of some of the dumb stuff I wanted to do when I was 15, I'm glad someone stopped me." (But even wise Aaron clearly can't imagine any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Not Tattoo? | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

But what about Linux, the free operating system used and loved by some 15 million techies and evoked so often by Microsoft witnesses during the trial? Isn't Linux a viable alternative? Not according to the judge. He describes Linux as a "fringe" operating system that's unlikely to challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fringe Benefits | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Just how many applications run on Linux? That's a good question--so good, in fact, that the answer doesn't appear anywhere in Jackson's findings. The truth is that there are probably more Linux programs than he realized--a lot more. The best estimate I could find was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fringe Benefits | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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