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...public Internet chat. Of course, he was helped in reaching that goal by the fact that prior to 1992, the Internet didn't exist as a mass medium. But that's no reason to deny Clinton the glory of being the "first." Organized by CNN and moderated by correspondent Wolf Blitzer, the chat was intended to be an opportunity for citizens to interact with the President more directly than was possible before the Internet. Unfortunately, not even Clinton was immune to the biggest problem of Internet chats--that people are not always what they seem...
Surprisingly, the server had not been set up to reserve any usernames, such as President_Clinton or Wolf_Blitzer, to specific computers. Anyone could take those names, without even a password, as long as no one else had them first. Since Clinton and Blitzer had been logged in from the beginning, this did not seem to be a problem--until one clever user wondered what would happen if the server crashed...
According to Anthony E. Wolf, a psychologist and author of It's Not Fair: Jeremy Spencer's Parents Let Him Stay Up All Night!, kids this age are learning to see themselves not just as part of your family but also in the larger social context of, say, the fifth-grade class. One result is that kids try on other families' rules for size...
During this phase, you'll do well to choose your battles carefully. It's silly to expect all parents to share your rules. Says Wolf: "That doesn't even happen in a two-parent family." (Memo to father of 10-year-old girl I know, irked when daughter gleefully watched forbidden The Spy Who Shagged Me at friend's birthday party: It's hardly a matter of physical danger or moral corruption, so give it a rest...
...applause was muted, however, when the CSPI turned from wolf-in-sheep's-clothing snacks like popcorn to such self-evidently fatty fare as Mexican and Italian food. The group's unsurprising findings (tacos and lasagna can be bad for you) seemed less memorable than their breathless sound bites. (Fettuccine Alfredo, for example, was called "a heart attack on a plate.") "A lot of this stuff makes sense," says economist James Bennett, author of The Food and Drink Police. "But sometimes it seems they're just out to grab headlines...