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...nerdy 25-year-old has a knack for creating believable characters. Among his favorites is Melissa, a cute high school freshman who spends her evenings listening to Creed and Dream Theater--and chatting about sex online with adult men. Her mom, Melissa tells these men, is so strict that she is thinking of moving in with her stepsister, a party girl who shacks up with a boyfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sipowicz Goes Cyber | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...whole, the laws of physics don't like to be fooled with. Nature has pretty strict rules, not just about how fast objects can move but also about how cold they can get. Scientists know temperatures can drop only so far before absolute zero--the bitter rock bottom of physics' thermometer--stops them from cooling any further. On the way down toward the absolute-zero mark, however, remarkable things can happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Ever... Reach Absolute Zero? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...manage to become the most powerful--or at least most quoted--student at Harvard by becoming the president of the Undergraduate Council. That's quite alright, because the UC isn't even the favorite extracurricular activity of Sterling Price Adams Darling Jr. '01. With a Southern drawl and strict no-jeans policy, he seems suited for cotillions and cotton plantations, not a throng of 1,700 Latin students who laugh at his name, tell and retell legends about him and hang on his every necktie--but that's where Darling most wants...

Author: By Sarah J. Ramer, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sterling Silver: Harvard's political darling rules his national administration | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...There are strict orthodox Muslims that wouldn't approve of the guitar, and I want to be friends with everyone," he said...

Author: By Thomas J. Castillo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Converted Musician Speaks About Islam | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

...bookkeeping, which Saylor insists was conservative, and you may end up without a client; fail to do so, and you face angry shareholders and their lawyers after the books are put right. PricewaterhouseCoopers, MicroStrategy's auditor, did not advise the firm that it had failed to comply with strict revenue accounting rules until the restatement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E-Numbers Game | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

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