Word: using
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...suing, punishing and bullying their own customer base. A Norwegian 16-year-old, Jon Johansen, is under criminal prosecution in Norway, at the behest of American movie studios, for releasing a program that helps to play DVD movies on non-Windows computers, but could also theoretically be used to make unauthorized copies of those DVDs. The Recording Industry Association of America is suing to prohibit distribution of Napster, a program for sharing MP3 music files used by hundreds of thousands of mostly young music lovers around the world. And Mattel, a company that makes products only young people use...
...majority of the articles in the magazine's feature section were written by women of color, from pieces by freelance journalists to biracial novelist Danzy Senna's account of her troubled relationship with her Irish grandmother. Writes Oprah: "This is the defining question in my life. How do you use your life to best serve yourself and extend it to the world?" Once again, she has served herself by extending her self-service to the world, and what would probably come off as self-aggrandizement anywhere else in this case just looks like intelligent packaging...
...THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS!! He opens his classroom at 7 a.m.--an hour early--for optional math study. After regular classes end at 2:48 p.m., he offers 45 minutes of Shakespeare, rehearsing a single play all year. Afterward, still on his own time, Esquith coaches volleyball, teaches computer use and helps with homework. Saturday mornings he tutors 40 former pupils, in Grades 6 through 9, in more Shakespeare--along with Ibsen, Chekhov, algebra and SAT preparation. Saturday afternoons he rehearses music with his students. "Call me the 'Education Equalizer,'" Esquith says, noting that middle-class kids get sports, music...
...groups met regularly from the beginning of the year. A large e-mail collective allowed them to share ideas and dilemmas with fellow activists around the world. Tasks ranged from crucial fund raising to communicating with the "corporate media." Caravan tackled how to get affinity groups into town and use the trip to spread the Mobilization's message. Permitted Action organized the legal rallies (as opposed to civil disobedience-or direct action). Logistics faced the dilemma of finding as many as 30,000 places for people to sleep...
...earn merit badges in backpacking and tracking. Dogs and their people work hard from morning to night, but they can also pursue less serious interests like painting lessons for the bow-wow set, games of musical chairs and an all-pooch band. Seminars teach emergency first aid and the use of herbal medicine for dogs...