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Study: Internet not socially damagin
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IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE
Gov. George W. Bush and Art King ‘66
In the White House and the Court House
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Concerns the Inter
net revolution has dehumanized America may be
unfounded.
Nearly two-thirds of all Americans have ven
tured online, and the majority of them deny that
the Internet creates social isolation, according to a
study released Wednesday by the University of
California in Los Angeles.
For instance, more than 75 percent said they do
not feel as if they are being ignored by relatives
and friends as a result of chatroom activity. In fact,
the majority of Internet users said email. Websites
and chat rooms have a “modestly positive impact”
on their abilities to make new friends and com
municate more with family.
But the Internet has only been a popular com
munication tool for the past five years, cautions
UCLA researcher Jeffrey Cole. Cole, the lead re
searcher of “Surveying the Digital Future,” be
lieves the Web w^ll have profound long-term ef
fects that most users cannot yet detect.
“The Internet changes everything from our
values to communication patterns and consumer
behavior,” Cole said. Spending long hours surf
ing the Web “can even change how many neigh
bors we recognize by their faces,” he added.
The study focused on the opinions and online
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study showed.
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afraid of the government monitoring us,”(ij
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what they do.”
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the next 10 to 20 years in an effort to address
issues relatiilg to the technology. loiions are
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and nonusers — who mirror the nation’s ethnic,
economic and geographic makeup.
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neither helped nor hurt by Internet activity. Near
ly two-thirds said they now buy less from tradi-
Rainie said.
The UCLA study was funded by the Natn'i ll0 | ^ et an
Science Foundation as well as America Oifjf. 1 ' 1 L ?^ e ’
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Former baseball star Strawberry
arrested, tests positive for drugs
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Former baseball star Darryl
Strawberry was jailed Wednesday after he allegedly left
a drug treatment center for a weekend
drug binge with a friend.
The 38-year-old slugger was taken
‘Jinto custody after testing positive for
drugs, said Joe Papy, a probation case
supervisor.
Strawberry, who was serving house
arrest at the rehab center, left for about
four hours Saturday night, and later
admitted smoking crack and taking 10
Xanax, a mood-lifting prescription drug, with a woman,
Papy said.
Papy said Strawberry blamed emotional difficulties
for the drug binge. The former baseball star also is fight
ing colon cancer.
“Needless to say we are always disappointed when an
addict relapses,” Papy said.
• Papy said Strawberry’s probation officer will recom
mend a judge hold him in jail for 30 days and then fit him
with an electronic monitoring device.
STRAWBERRY
Prosecutors and Joseph Ficarrotta, Strawberry’s attor
ney, did not immediately return calls for comment.
Strawberry was on probation for drug andsolicita-
tion-of-prostitution offenses when he was arrested for al
legedly driving under the influence of medication and
leaving the scene of an accident. For that probation vio
lation, he was put under two years’ house arrest at the
private drug treatment center, its location kept secret by
officials.
He is now charged with two violations of house arrest,
violating curfew and using drugs.
The arrest is the latest in a string of legal run-ins for the
1983 Rookie of the Year and eight-time All Star, who played
on World Series championship teams with the New York
Yankees and Mets.
In February, Strawberry was suspended from baseball
for at least a year, his third cocaine-related suspension in
five years.
In 1998, he had surgery and chemotherapy for colon can
cer. In August, he underwent surgery to remove a tumor in
his stomach.
News in Brief
Gas experiment
conducted in
Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In what
sounds like something out of “The
X-Files,” scientists are releasing
gas on downtown Salt Lake City in
experiments aimed at preparing for
the possibility of a terrorist attack.
By releasing tiny amounts of a
safe gas called sulfur hexafluoride,
they are trying to understand the
risk of chemical or biological at
tacks on urban areas. The gas is re
leased on a street corner from a
pressurized cylinder with a fan.
The experiments could be useful
for security during the 2002 Olympic
Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Scientists chose Salt Lake City
because its mountain-rimmed basin
is vulnerable to weather inversions
that trap pollutants near the ground.
That could make a chemical attack
even more dangerous.
Scientists funded by the Ener
gy Department have been joined
here by members of the Penta
gon’s Defense Threat Reduction
Agency.
Sixty environmental experts from
government labs and universities
'are using portable weather stations
to measure the tracer gas as it
blows over and around the city’s
tallest buildings.
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