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...gaming companies. "The state of Illinois should not dictate the choices parents make," says Lowenstein, who believes that the industry should continue to regulate itself. In fact, some retailers are making an effort to crack down. David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says big stores like Target have locking registers that do not permit video-game transactions until a buyer's date of birth is punched in. Proof of age isn't always requested, however. And compliance among retailers is voluntary and often spotty. In a 2003 study conducted by the Federal Trade Commission, 69% of kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Vigilantes | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

...scores. Within hours of the Dec. 21 release of two French journalists who had been held hostage in Iraq for four months, politicians, security officials - and even former abductees Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot themselves - were trading accusations over the efforts to free them from their captors. The main target: conservative legislator Didier Julia and his team of dilettante sleuths, who sought to bypass official attempts to secure the pair's freedom by dealing with shadowy Middle Eastern contacts of their own. Their media-hyped campaign went belly-up in early October after Julia's minions claimed they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Men Who Would Be Spooks | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

Firefox is more or less free from these plights. For one, its relative unpopularity makes it an unattractive target for the spammers and spyware authors that write the code that breaks Internet Explorer. You might ask, however, if Firefox is unpopular now and we all take your advice, won’t it grow into a big enough target such that it stops passing under the bad guys’ radar? Fortunately the browser has quite a bit more going for it: Released by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, it is an open-source application created by people who like...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Happ e-Holidays | 12/20/2004 | See Source »

...Kevin is manhandled every game,” Sullivan said. “He’s really got the target on his back. It’s hard for him to get free off of a lot of screens...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. HOOPS NOTEBOOK: Beatty Steps Up Inside with Cusworth Out | 12/20/2004 | See Source »

Despite moving toward hiring processes that target women, the University suffers from a problem with its image...

Author: By Sarah E.F. Milov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sciences Struggle To Draw Women | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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