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...their bedroom with only Kermit the Frog and the offspring of Aaron Spelling to keep them company. So the first thing parents should do is take the TV out of a kid's room. Like computers, televisions should be where parents can at least tell if they are being used. Even those parents who choose not to monitor their kids' viewing (half the parents surveyed had no rules about TV) should at least know if the set is on. The data from this study show that television viewing is becoming an increasingly private, isolating activity, with homes having on average...
...between cyberlife and social life. Suddenly everybody is doing computer call waiting. This summer Actiontec became the first company to sell a call-waiting modem. And this fall software-only services are popping up everywhere. Callwave, Pagoo and Prodigy all offer programs you can download from their websites and use for up to $5 a month. In October MSN launched a $5-a-month, members-only service in Atlanta, Seattle and San Diego and plans to go nationwide by March. Research firm IDC predicts that more than a quarter of U.S. households will use an Internet call-waiting service...
...true that their only exhaust is water vapor. However, Hertsgaard seems reluctant to spoil the party by telling us where the hydrogen comes from. It is certainly not out there floating around in large amounts free for the asking. Fuel-cell-powered autos would make for much more efficient use of the ubiquitous fossil fuels, but propulsion free of dependence on these fuels is still a long way off. G. WILLIAM GOWARD Clinton, Conn...
...thinking when they suggested that "authorities were overreacting to teenage boasting and misunderstandings"? Just where have these folks been for the past few years? Ridiculous! And the shame of it is that the parents and high school personnel paid no attention to the warning signs. If lawyers plan to use overreaction as their argument in the courtroom, I pray that it won't fly. LAVERA PORTER WILLIAMS Sun City, Calif...
Joel Stein's article on the new television shows featuring "buxom female action stars" [TELEVISION, Nov. 8] included a chart that rated the programs according to "jiggle factor." My hope for the next millennium: no one will feel that it is appropriate to use the word jiggle to describe female anatomy in a "news" magazine such as TIME. RACHEL DUNIFON Ann Arbor, Mich...