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...late 1998--long before the phrase Columbine school shooting enters your lexicon--and you're a researcher at a hate-group-monitoring center. Your job is to trawl the Web, surf literally thousands of "anarchy" links and make a note of the really nasty ones. One day you stumble across a high school student's website that contains a lot of hateful teen posturing and some plug-ins for a best-selling violent computer game. Do you bookmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: Digital Dungeons | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

While Joelle N. Simpson '99, former co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Caribbean Club, says she enjoyed aspects of the meal, she did find the fantasy world HDS evoked--complete with beach balls and surf boards--"obviously touristic...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In HDS' festive meals, what are the ingredients of a cultural experience? | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

While Joelle N. Simpson '99, former co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Caribbean Club says she enjoyed aspects of the meal, she did find the fantasy world HDS evoked--complete with beach balls and surf boards--"obviously touristic...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing With Your Food | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...making triple my old salary, and I only have to work when I want to," says Sommers. That kind of flexibility was one of the key selling points for Rolando and Lisa Anzardo, longtime New Jersey antiques dealers, who closed their retail store, moved to the sun and surf of Florida and established a virtual trading post. For a year now, they've been hawking their wares exclusively on eBay, shipping about 75 items a month, ranging in price from $100 to $2,000. "At the store, you [often] wouldn't make a sale for three or four weeks," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's One Big Market | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like PC functions? Well, there will always be geeks who have to have too much computing power. But the rest of us may be satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PC Makers Get Crunched | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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