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AGgif ^9 gielife 1 Hh B %'HI battalion 5A Wednesday, September 25, 2002 BACK REFRESH DEB WATCH » ^ i tm www.earthcam.com | K)n earthcam.com, surfers can “cruise” the streets of France, ^^Haml and Xceas with the click .>1 a mouse. From New York to Los Angeles and Alaska to Hawaii, this Web site offers views fron all over the United States and of the Earth, too. Hi their computers are fast enough, viewers can feel like the) ’re actually there. some Web cams close, surfers can see the expressions of tourists walking down Broadwax in Times ^k/Sqlarc. and one Manhattan cam even boasts its view is "so close yoii can almost smell the exhaust." '" v :llsU IlallK canis lor 'Lose heading onto the streets. ■■but xou wmi't Imd a Web cam broadcasting Wellborn Road and ■all it Moi ions con si I UCI ion. I low c\ ei. those heading northbound ^on 1-495 in Long Island can expect mild delays due to inclement weather and a four car pile-up. ■tandom cameras online include one installed in the All Makes Vac & Sew Shop in Los Angeles and those longing for the? great outdoors can glimpse the view from atop Big Mountain in ilontana. ^tarthcam.com even offers views of several 20-to-3()-year- oldr apartments in various cities letting surfers go almost any- wlute and see almost anyone, without feeling like the stalker they are. ' -Lizettc Resendez www.adiamondisforever.com preferably from an anonymous e-mail address with the word “sex” and at least three exclamation points in the subject line. With adiamondisforever.com, neither party loses and every one involved will be satisfied -Lizette Resendez www.fear.com film’s distyr ,H) 3 Maix kicran (u ■ unhi, ('lairt: ie SappcNr >luit) (Igbj'v ^ m.mda Pn let’s mistnh' ippe i Igbb- (Miverl, Hi \ father r Ion (IgbvN * en and dirr. leers. Run . 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After the perfect ring has been designed, view ers can save their dream ring in their online “jewelry box.” They can even e-mail the photo of the desired ring to their beloved. “What are you afraid of?” Fear.com poses this question and leaves it up to the site’s visitors to answer it for themselves. Responses range from “If kangaroos became a dominant species,” and “realizing that you got hit by a parked car,” to things much more serious regarding relationships, i.e. “the person that makes you happiest in life can also make you the saddest,” family, i.e. “the Amber alert being used for my child,” and national security, i.e. “that Americans are hated by a third of the world and don't know it.” Anyone surfing the site can suggest fears not already listed or choose to agree or disagree with previous responses. The total of those agreeing and disagreeing builds the top-five fears list. The site provides a message board and chat room to discuss fears and what to do about them. Each week there is a question posed by the site administrator on a specific fear and how it affects people. The top on-going discussion is former President Franklin Roosevelt's statement, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Fear.com loads quickly even on the slowest of computers, and the listing of fears will keep any visitor around for a long time. It’s a great site to go to for entertainment, as many of the responses will make visitors laugh out loud. But, it's also a site that causes some deep soul searching. -Denise Schoppe A Waste of Cyberspace Keep on Surfing Web-Worthy Plan to Stay Logged On Check it outi bookmark in everyone on your Buddy List i t ;ial tins e first ie it! MAY 112002 RICTEP EQUIRESACCOMW' OR APUir GUAgg^ MAGES, LANGf \NP sexuality :o www.filinraW Sl • lease Date’ r 4, 2002 Miss America judge asks Italian contestant about 'Sopranos' MORRISTOWN, NJ. (AP) - A Miss America pageant judge was wrong to ask Miss New Je|$ey about her views on "The Sopranos," the contestant and some italian-American groups said. The judge asked Alicia Renee Luciano what she thought about the show during an interview segment of Saturday night's pag eant in Atlantic City. The HBO drama focuses on fictional mob boss Tony Soprano as he juggles organized crime and his family life in suburban New Jersey. | Luciano, 19, answered that people should n't take television shows seriously, and that good parenting should offset violence on TV. . fit was a question that I don't think they would ask of anyone, other than someone with my background," she told The Daily Record of Parsippany for Tuesday's editions. The Byram resident is believed to be the first Italian-American to represent New Jersey in the pageant. ■'I wasn't expecting that," Luciano said. "Everyone else was getting questions about how they felt about performance dance and the arts." ■Several Italian-American groups agreed, calling the question insensitive and insulting. Miss America officials did not immediately return a message left at their office early Tuesday. ||T don't think it was appropriate," said Anthony Marci, vice president of the North Jersey chapter of Fiery, a group of students and young adults that celebrates Italian culture. |f:"lt's a television show that should be taken with a grain of salt," he said. "But at the PEOPLE IN THE NEWS same time, Italian-Americans should be cog nizant that it adds to the stereotypes in this country." Actress Kitaen files lawsuit against estranged husband SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Actress Tawny Kitaen has filed a $12 million lawsuit against her estranged husband, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chuck Finley. In the lawsuit made public Monday, Kitaen accuses her husband of breach of contract, saying Finley broke his promise to support her financially for the rest of her life. Finley filed for divorce in April, three days after Kitaen was arrested for spousal abuse. The 41-year-old actress, who appeared in the movie Bachelor Party, was accused of attacking her husband April 1 as the two were returning home from dinner. Police said they saw scrapes on Finley's body. Kitaen pleaded no contest to a misde meanor count of spousal abuse and was ordered to undergo a year of counseling, avoid contact with her husband and make a $500 donation to a battered- women's shelter. Finley, 37, was playing for the Cleveland Indians at the time; he's since been traded to St. Louis. In court documents filed Sept. 17, Kitaen said that when Finley proposed to her on Valentine's Day 1991, he gave her a Cartier diamond engagement ring and a key to his home. He soon gave her unlimited access to his personal bank account and told her to spend away, the lawsuit said. When Kitaen became pregnant with the couple's first daughter in 1992, Finley requested she become a full-time mother in exchange for financial support, the law suit said. Kitaen gave up her career of making $15,000 a week on the syndicated sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" and $22,000 an episode as host of "America's Funniest People," the lawsuit said. She stopped work ing full time in 1993. Kitaen was Finley's nurse and homemaker and managed his day-to-day business, the lawsuit said. She also boosted his career by lending him her own celebrity, and even picked out his hair color to burnish his boy ish image, the lawsuit said. Since filing for divorce, Finley has ignored Kitaen's repeated requests for money, and seized $4.1 million from a joint personal account, the lawsuit said. Supreme Court judge donates building to Loyola Law School LOS ANGELES (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy dedicated the latest creation from architect Frank Gehry, the Loyola Law School's Albert H. Girardi Advocacy Center. Kennedy said Monday that his profession and Gehiys are similar. "We... recognize the need for experimentation, creation and new ways of doing things." The center is the latest in a series of con temporary buildings in a central plaza on campus, each of which Gehry designed over the past two decades. The three-story rust colored structure with its 65-foot conical silver tower contains a 90- person courtroom for mock trials, a jury deliberation room, a 70-person appellate courtroom, a 36-person Center for Ethical Advocacy classroom and video training labs. It's already booked for lectures and an upcoming moot court later this week. <3^ 4^ Redefine Your World Today 37 Aggies are serving. Are you next? Talk to former Volunteer & TAMU Recruiter Dr. Nelson Jacob at the TAMU Career Center, Koldus Bldg, Room 209: • Monday and Wednesday, 3 to 4:30 p.m. • Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. • Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. • or call (979) 862-7966 or e-mail peacecorps@tamu.edu You’re invited to a Peace Corps Film Show and Presentation on Thursday, September 26, 5:30 p.m., in 502 Rudder Tower. www.peacecorps.gov • 1-800-424-8580 * Turkish Lessons * Russian Conversation Partners By Association for Language Learning (ALL) Limited seats! i Contact Immediately: allanguage@yahoo.com 4 (Pind your rhythm.) 721 Texas Ave. S. (979) 696.5077 cst# 1017560-40 www.statnavel.com STA TRAVEL onLine >> on the pnone >> onenmpu/ >> on the /tregt Fall Activities Council & TAMU Food Services Is proud to present: Aggie Invasion at Baylor Texas A&M vs. Baylor October 12 $10 Bus Ride to Waco (Includes Lunch) Come ami join other students, faculty, and members of the community as we take a bus trip to Waco to watch the Fightin' Texas Aggies beat the hell out of the Baylor Bears. When: Saturday, October 12 Cost: $10 (available at MSC Box Office until 9/30) *** Tickets to the football game sold separately. *** Buy football tickets by calling 979-845-2311 or going to the TAMU Athletic Ticket Office upstairs in Koldus. Bring participant wavier/release form to buses Buses will begin loading at 9AM Buses will leave for Waco at 10AM Buses will return for College Station 1 Vi hours aftergame Don't forget to Maroon-Out!!!
