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DIED. JOSEPH WOLFSON, 50, legendary surfer who was nicknamed "Dr. 360" after being the first boogie boarder to turn full circle while riding a wave; in a car crash; in Los Angeles. Surfers rescued Wolfson in 1998, after the lung-cancer patient left a note onshore with $5,000 for a funeral party and paddled...
...This is by no means over," says Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, who helped lead the fight. In fact, DoubleClick has not called off its plans but only shelved them until the government and industry can agree on a set of privacy standards. Surfer, beware...
...heading, like "ClevelandM4M," and click on the who's chatting button to see a list of folks in the room. Listed with each individual's screen name is an accompanying profile--a personal resume of sorts, whose details vary from person to person and city to city. When a surfer finds a profile he likes, rather than have an ice-breaking conversation on the chat-room bulletin board, he'll usually send an instant message to the potential paramour with an invitation to a private room. Says TV producer Jim Fraenkel, 29: "You don't even have to say anything...
...coming weeks will festoon them with banner ads. GOP rival John McCain previously experimented with banners, but not at the same level of marketing sophistication - Bush's people cross-referenced lists of registered Republican and Independent voters with lists of users of various web sites. A web surfer who, for example, clicks on the Nashua NRA chapter page in the coming weeks could be met by a blinking banner asking "How much will the BUSH TAX CUT save YOU?" If he clicks on the ad, a pop-up calculator will quickly compute his family's savings under Bush's plan...
Originally a surfer band and nothing more, the Beach Boys always retained a corny novelty sound that combined with their dated harmonizing and often nave lyrics to make them less than popular at present. Yet in their day they were America's best rock band, peaking in 1966 with their Pet Sounds album, which topped the charts in Britain, outselling even the Beatles' Revolver...