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...game is spreading to charities with no particular root in the gay community. Last fall, the Young Professionals Network of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center raised $8,000 running drag queen bingo. "We're trying to get younger people involved, the 20- and 30-something-year-olds," says Kathryn Buckley, development coordinator of the Englewood, Colo. center. "A lot of us can't afford to do the big black-tie dinners and golf tournaments, and this is just so much...
...They did more than stare. Over the next few years Chai, her younger brother, their Chinese father and Irish-American mother were insulted, harassed and ostracized. Their house was shot at from passing cars, and their pet dogs gunned down on the lawn. Her father ultimately resigned his academic job in frustration over narrow-minded colleagues. "It felt as though we were being punished for crimes we hadn't realized we had committed," Chai writes in Hapa Girl, her searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland. "There were many people who wanted my father to suffer...
...someone has to do it, I am just glad it is other people. 10.FM: People are really passionate about their daily puzzles. Give us a taste of your most malicious hate mail ever.WS: I got some when I started out at the job in 1993. I was 36 years younger than my predecessor. In the older puzzle, if anything from the last 20 years showed up it came as a shock, like “what is that doing here? That is so out of character.” My philosophy is that crosswords should embrace everything in life. When...
...insiders know that kids and teenagers are actually virtual worlds' biggest aficionados, and they've got their own favorite hangouts. While 3.5 million people worldwide visited Second Life in March, according to comScore World Metrix, virtual worlds for the younger set, such as clubpenguin.com and stardoll.com, each got more than 4.5 million visitors during the same period. These and similar sites such as gaiaonline.com and habbohotel.com are particularly popular with girls, in part because of the virtual "dress up" features that enable users to create and purchase endless outfit changes...
...Before parents set their kids loose in Zwinktopia or any other virtual world, however, they should know there is nothing to prevent, say, a pedophile from joining the site and masquerading as a 13-year-old girl. Although some sites aimed at younger kids, such as Disney' s ToonTown and Ganz' s Webkinz, only let members exchange canned messages, on Zwinktopia kids are free to type their own messages. However, swear words and sexually explicit comments get replaced with a "bleep." And while there is no age verification process, members who claim to be 17 or younger are directed...