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Girl talk
Janelle Brown
Are frank online discussions of blow jobs and masturbation empowering teen girls -- or turning them into Lolitas?
My own private IPO
Carina Chocano
We invite your investment in our ill-defined but well-hyped venture.
Copyright — or wrong?
Janelle Brown
The Church of Scientology takes up a new weapon -- the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act -- in its ongoing battle with critics.
Soft-contact safety questions
Dawn MacKeen
A new study shows a higher risk of infection with soft contacts, especially if worn overnight.
A computer in every hand
David Pescovitz
Adam Osborne paved the way with the Osborne 1 -- the first portable PC.
What's it gonna Be?
Etelka Lehoczky
After nine years of building an operating system, Be is going public. But has the company figured out what it wants to be?
City slickers
Jake Tapper
New Orleans, Boston, Detroit and Alameda County, Calif., are suing gun manufacturers and dealers for distributing what they deem a dangerous product -- and then turning around and selling guns themselves.
They got game
Moira Muldoon
Talented players make good money selling characters on eBay. Are they denigrating gaming -- or turning it into a profession?
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Readers tell British expat Toby Young: Go home; Rudy Rucker defends his novel (and his spirituality).
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Microsoft's not the only Web host that wants your content; George W. is a puppet and a paper tiger.
The big E
Dawn MacKeen
Doctors, law enforcement and ravers are scrutinizing ecstasy's possible long-term effects as the drug pours into the U.S. in record numbers.
The Gottis: Putting the fun in dysfunctional
Jerry Capeci
Analyze this! With Junior's sentencing scheduled for this week, transcripts of a visiting room chat between the Dapper Don and his darling daughter reveal a family that's got some issues. And who the hell's Sigmund the Sea Monster?
Throwing the book at it
Suzi Parker
Allegations of deceptive politics and public giveaways shroud plans for the Clinton presidential library.
Clueless in Tokyo
David Lazarus
Avatar chat, porn and microwave cooking -- if the Net in Japan isn't good for much else, no wonder it's not a hit.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
"Star Trek" is no more utopia than "Star Wars"; Cintra should try looking in the wrong places.
Who owns the New York Times bestseller list?
Scott Rosenberg
On the Net, fighting to hang on to every last chunk of intellectual property is a recipe for stagnation and failure.
Mea culpa: Viruses, worms and zipped files
Scott Rosenberg
Yes, zipped files now arrive with an ".exe" extension -- and the main reason we need compression utilities is Microsoft.
The Silicon Valley myth with a life of its own
Michael Mattis
In "Pirates," HP, Xerox and other big companies play the fools of the PC revolution, and only the lone visionary "gets it."
The best anti-virus defense: Knowledge
Scott Rosenberg
Learn how your computer works and you'll be much less susceptible to viruses like the Explore.zip worm.
Three lives in Everquest
Janelle Brown
When a game is this beautiful and complex, who cares about a few deaths along the way?
Got my groovy browser baby, yeah
Kaitlin Quistgaard
It might be worth turning your browser into a "desktop-portal" -- if "Austin Powers" is part of the deal.
The Web's plagiarism police
Andy Dehnart
An online service claims it can identify purloined papers. So why'd it nail my thesis?
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