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"To be honest, neither I nor my husband know enough about the Internet and exactly what people do in it..

"To be honest, neither I nor my husband know enough about the Internet and exactly what people do in it. . .I will certainly be taking lessons to get more familiar with it". - The mother of a British teenager who ran away after running up a huge phone bill by surfing the Web.

News monitor column compiled by Patrick Logue.

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