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Because of the rash of injuries, Harvard wrestlers were forced to compete in unfamiliar weight divisions. Due to freshman Occhuizzo's injury, freshman Andrew Stoll--who usually competes at 190 pounds--took Occhuizzo's place in both 200-plus pound events...
...ever be lonely anymore. Writing would become a mass art form. Democracy would flourish as millions of people logged on to the vast, bubbling, uncensored online debate. I didn't know that much of what goes on online would turn out to be "utter drivel," as disillusioned cyberpioneer Clifford Stoll now concludes in his book Silicon Snake Oil, or "flame wars" of crude and escalating insults, or, of course, cybersex with Beavis and Butt-head...
...complaint that may resonate with millions of computer owners. Part of the problem is that expectations have been set too high. Stoll blasts what he calls "Internet hucksters burbling with falsehoods" about how the network is creating a global village, breaking down geographic boundaries and allowing new communities to grow up around shared interests and ideas...
...Stoll isn't dismissing computers altogether. He acknowledges that the Internet has served him well over the years, allowing him to keep in touch with friends and colleagues, bringing news from around the world. "But at what a price!" he writes. "Simply keeping track of this electronic neighborhood takes a couple of hours every night ... Bit by bit, my days dribble away, trickling out my modem...
Heady as that might seem at first, it may not be enough. "Life in the real world," Stoll writes, "is far more interesting, far more important, far richer, than anything you'll ever find on a computer screen." His advice to anyone spending more than a few hours online per day: Get out of the house! Meet your neighbors face to face! Grow tomatoes! Turn the computer off, for heaven's sake...