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Chandler may be on to something. Call it the porn factor. Whereas pornography was once furtively glimpsed at dimly lighted newsstands or seedy adult theaters, today it is everywhere. It pours in over the Internet, sometimes uninvited, sometimes via eagerly forwarded links (Paris Hilton, anyone?). It titillates 24/7 on steamy adult cable channels and on-demand services (the pay-per-view reality show Can You Be a Porn Star? made its debut this month). It has infiltrated mainstream cable with HBO's forthcoming documentary series Pornucopia: Going Down in the Valley. And in ways that have only begun...
...uncertain terms by another widow that the man was already taken. "I thought I was back in a high school locker room," recalls Nancy, astonished by the woman's aggressiveness. Sexual games among the senior set can also have a happier outcome, of course. Discovering each other via the Internet, old high school sweethearts Barbara MacLeod and Bill Jessup, both 77 and living in Miami, got married last March and found, in his words, "we can teach something to newlyweds" about sex. He loves chasing Barbara around the house, he says, though happily for him, "she won't run that...
...poll surveyed a random sample of Harvard College students over a four-day period in December; 361 students responded to the poll, which was administered online via a secure, authenticated server. Statistics had a margin of error of plus or minus six percentage points...
...Internet is Calling Britain's dominant phone company last week took a small step into telecoms' next big thing when it launched a service that carries phone calls via the Internet. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has long promised huge phone-bill savings, but has been delayed by poor quality. It's still "not quite as good" as standard land lines but "much better than mobiles," says BT executive Fergus Crockett. In the U.S., AT&T and Time Warner Cable said they would start VoIP in 2004. BT users can now plug in an €85 adapter that's free...
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