Word: access
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Carpenter said that while parents play an instrumental role in the education of their children, they are also liable to pass on prejudices and limitations that can be remedied by access to the Internet...
They're the FICA of your phone bill: those mysterious three-, five- or 10-dollar charges that show up on your phone bill for services you don't really understand. They're called "access fees," and they're basically a tribute that your long-distance carrier has to pay your local phone company for using its wires (and part of the regulatory hangover still lingering after the breakup of AT&T). But never mind all that - they're about to go down. The FCC on Wednesday promised lower July phone bills for everyone after it slashed those fees...
...those rare cases where nearly everyone can see both sides. But a decision finally had to be made, and on Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor came down in favor of Oregon's adoptees, upholding a never-enforced state law by refusing to block their access to birth records. The case wound up in O'Connor's hands when six Oregon women who had previously given children up for adoption challenged the state law, claiming it violated their right to privacy. Adoptee advocates fired back, insisting the law was critical to their basic right to know: Those health...
COMPAQ IPAQ H3650 $499 or $799, plus $30 a month (with modem); available in June Look out, Palm! Here's a silvery, sleek pocket PC with a built-in MP3 player, full Web access and a gorgeous color screen...
...forecasts ceased, but so, in a sense, has the weather itself, leaving them, as the wife notes, "stuck in a bland width of grayness with day after day of neither heat nor cold." In Windows another couple, both painters, decide to board up their house, depriving themselves of indoor access to natural light, to protest the government's new window tax. Reportage offers a breezily journalistic account of how local residents react when a Roman arena is improbably excavated in their area of Manitoba...