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...March 15, the Mattel toy company and its subsidiary Microsystems Inc., asked a federal court in Massachusetts to prohibit two young men in Sweden and Canada from explaining to the world how their product, the Web-censorship filter Cyberpatrol, works. The Canadian and Swedish programmers took apart the Cyberpatrol program to figure out how it stored the lists of websites that Cyberpatrol blocks. Cyberpatrol distributes that list in encrypted form, scrambled so that no consumers who purchase the product can tell exactly what the censor they have installed is censoring...
...only do World Class reps toy with the reservations, they literally play with spring breakers. In Cancun, the reps do as the spring breakers do - hook up. Haritos states that "whenever I needed help at a club, I would find Roberto [a rep] in the corner somewhere hooking up with some high-school girl." To rev up the crowd at the club Fat Tuesday's, another rep actually entered himself into the "Craziest Kiss Contest" where he proceeded to perform oral sex on his randomly selected college-girl partner on stage. "They were obviously not there for professional reasons," says...
...Dream. Congressmen like Dan Burton flew to Miami to meet him and report to the waiting media circus that they had discussed every Yankee virtue from the Federalist papers to 401(k)s. Elian went to Disney World, hugged Barney, celebrated his sixth birthday with the gift of a toy gun. He fell in love with chocolate milk; a Florida cousin who visits regularly told TIME that whenever Elian's cousin Marisleysis poured him a glass, she made a point of adding that "Fidel Castro won't let his grandmas make that for him in Cuba...
...made it on his home computer with a $300 software package called Animation:Master by a little company called Hash Inc. Alien Song has been so popular that Navone gets hundreds of e-mails and many job offers. He now works as an animator at Pixar, maker of Toy Story. KEN BAER Portland...
...surfing the Internet and shopping online. Consultant Forrester Research predicts that Web spending will soar from $20 billion in 1999 to $184 billion by 2004. But superheated competition in everything from apparel to videos--e-shoppers can choose from 100 look-alike pet-supply sites and more than 200 toy stores, for example--virtually guarantees mass extinction. "The reality is that many of these companies are simply running out of cash," says Tom Wyman, who watches online shopping for J.P. Morgan. "They are losing anywhere from $10 million to $30 million a quarter." By year's end, Wyman says...