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Think of the impact on some innocent channel surfer who, in looking around for a diverting sporting event a while back, was making his way past MTV at the moment Bill Clinton was discussing his preference in underwear...
...would not have been the first time Kemp's political career took a detour. He is a California boy, but not the California of Beach Boys songs and surfer girls. His father started a small trucking company and raised his four sons in the middle-class Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Kemp's persistence comes from his old man, who gradually expanded his business from one truck to 14, but his empathy comes from his mother, a onetime social worker and Spanish teacher...
...guru turned 'Net-surfer Leary, who lectured at Harvard for about four years, staged his battle with cancer over the Internet, even promising to transmit his suicide electronically...
...podium as his mentor Seiji Ozawa but far more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...
According to at least one of those experts--16-year-old David Slifka of Manhattan--the danger of being bombarded with unwanted pictures is greatly exaggerated. "If you don't want them you won't get them," says the veteran Internet surfer. Private adult BBSs require proof of age (usually a driver's license) and are off-limits to minors, and kids have to master some fairly daunting computer science before they can turn so-called binary files on the Usenet into high-resolution color pictures. "The chances of randomly coming across them are unbelievably slim," says Slifka...