Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retail software from the same company that manages AOL's Web filters, is a customizable system that allows parents to choose which types of sites to block based on the parents' criteria. I may not want to block my children from information about gay and lesbian politics, but let's say you do: CyberPatrol accommodates. So does Net Nanny...
FIGHT SIMULATORS Although they are pure combat, martial-arts programs like TEKKEN 3 and VIRTUA FIGHTER seem less violent and a lot less cowardly than the games that let players hide behind their guns. The TEKKEN series has all the choreographed beauty of a Hong Kong action flick and hardly any virtual blood. There are probably worse ways to let off steam...
...that Lee, 59, downloaded the bulk of the secret codes in 1994 and 1995. He was allowed to retain his high-level security clearance at the lab until late 1998, even while he was under FBI surveillance for the W-88 theft. Agents say they asked the lab to let Lee keep his job so he wouldn't get wise to their probe. Still, it was not until after Lee's dismissal from Los Alamos that anyone managed to check what was on his computer. As more details have emerged, it has sometimes seemed that the only thing more breathtaking...
...shoving more home buyers into jumboland without a paycheck to match. In Louisville, Dallas and Phoenix, prices are going up 7% to 10% a year. In Charleston, S.C., home prices rose 16% last year. In San Francisco the median home price rose 12%, to a pocket-draining $321,700. Let's put that number in perspective: to buy an average house with the standard 20% down, you would have to borrow $257,360--jum-booo...
Best not to know this about Greer, perhaps, and better to read her book for its flashes of light on a perpetually murky subject. And best too to let Greer have the last word, since she will no doubt seize it anyway. "I don't want to tell people to do anything," she says. "I have put down what makes my heart ache, and either it will be helpful to people...