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...mail from my best boyhood pal, Stevie Scharfstein, recently. this in itself is not unusual; by now everyone I've ever known has E-mailed me, except a boy named Krepple I once met in Miami Beach in 1967. While the medium wasn't unusual, the message was. Scharfstein, a lawyer in Beaverton, Oregon, wanted the name of "a good Internet detective." My old friend is now learning his way around a curious new growth industry: Internet-sparked divorces...
...Quayle's famous 1992 speech in which he lambasted the character Murphy Brown for choosing to have a child out of wedlock. One can endlessly debate the question of whether television influences society or reflects it: Does Ellen Morgan's coming out in what is still our massest medium legitimize homosexuality, or does the sponsorship of a bottom-line business like ABC merely reflect its acceptance by a significant portion of the population? Clearly, the answer is both, that TV and culture play off each other in ways that are hard to codify. Any attempt to reduce these complex reverberations...
...pioneering film work kept flocking to the small screen of the PC. That's because the American Film Institute, through its online cinema on the Internet www.afionline.org/cinema) is showcasing the classics of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd--mavericks of the early 20th century's groundbreaking medium, silent film. With the help of VDOnet streaming video software, users have been able to watch real-time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink and Keaton's The Boat, a different one airing about every six weeks. Despite its small, 2-in. by 2.5-in. viewing...
...with strangers or to information that is different than what they see around them in their communities. The communication and the ideas can feel more personal or important than they are. While most people are mature enough to ignore the nuts or the nosy people and use this rich medium for communicating with their friends or seeking out information, children may not be. For parents who worry that their children may meet dangerous strangers amid the enormous information riches on the Net, the best advice is that any child who is not old enough to go to the Mall alone...
...with strangers or to information that is different than what they see around them in their communities. The communication and the ideas can feel more personal or important than they are. While most people are mature enough to ignore the nuts or the nosy people and use this rich medium for communicating with their friends or seeking out information, children may not be. For parents who worry that their children may meet dangerous strangers amid the enormous information riches on the Net, the best advice is that any child who is not old enough to go to the Mall alone...