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...unlikely that any public agency will be or should be able to play an effective role in controlling Net access and content. That can happen only at home. One family may respond to the Web's enticements by disconnecting the phone line; another may simply make them a regular topic of dinner conversation. And because we're each entitled to cleave to our own parenting ideology, both would be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising Kids Online | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...with flashing brown eyes sat in a Manhattan apartment and chatted about wheels and extraterrestrials. As an associate translated, Li Hongzhi, 48, discoursed with TIME's William Dowell on the manipulation, for physical and spiritual betterment, of circles of internal energy called qi. Suddenly, however, conversation veered to a topic Li has thus far broached to none but his inner circle: aliens on earth. "One type of alien looks like a human but has a nose made of a bone," he confided; others resemble ghosts. The extraterrestrials, who arrived circa 1900, have not been idle. "Everyone thinks that scientists invent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the Qi | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...exception was when Marty lectured on Social Security--a topic Dartboard knows is near and dear to his heart. He even stuck around to put his John Hancock on eager first years' lecture notes...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Dartboard | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...over the last few days I've realized that staying in Cambridge doesn't make the best topic of conversation when it comes to summer plans. It's not exotic, it's not influential, and it certainly isn't romantic...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OK. This Is Fine for Now. | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

Summer activities are currently the topic of choice for brief conversations with acquaintances I run into. And they have fallen into a familiar, and humbling, pattern...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OK. This Is Fine for Now. | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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