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...goes in Everquest, the state of the art in multiplayer, online role-playing games. It's been clear for decades how enthralled gamers are by such adventures, in which they visit invented universes whose inhabitants create their own stories by exploring territory, making alliances, seeking treasure and so on. But the Net has advanced the form considerably since the halcyon days of Dungeons & Dragons, the original game played by dateless dweebs in rec rooms across America on Saturday nights. Today's fantasy worlds are designed by software gurus, are presented on the Web and swarm with tens of thousands...
...lessons with them to the altar, advocates maintain the courses are already helping teens relate better to their parents and peers. In a five-year Boston University study, students who took The Art of Loving Well course were less likely to rush into sex. Scott Gardner, a South Dakota State University assistant professor evaluating marriage ed in that state's schools, found that after a semester-long course, students were more likely to reason out arguments than resort to aggression...
...then the mommies began to fight and, like so many couples these days, decided to break up. And now the woman who gave birth to Zoey is blocking her former partner from seeing the five-year-old child. The other woman is suing for custody rights. And a state appeals court in Florida is struggling with some heart-rending questions. Who exactly qualifies as a child's parent in the eyes of the law? Can a woman who behaves as a mother to a child be kept away from that child just because the woman is homosexual...
...conspicuous sign of social progress that the Holden Caulfields of 1999 can be "cured" with the aid of Prozac & Co., as discussed by Walter Kirn in "The Danger of Suppressing Sadness" [VIEWPOINT, May 31]. It is a shame that Joan of Arc in her benighted state could not have similarly been "cured." Unproductive individuals hostile to mainstream society, ranging from Socrates to Emerson, could have been chemically corrected for their own good to better adhere to the norm. If everyone conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make...
...Hampshire: Became the last state to declare Martin Luther King Day an official holiday...