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This research analyses the patterns of social interaction of a specific group of young people who play on-line games in a cybercafe in Barcelona. This group can be classified as a hybrid -on-line/ off-line- since their face-to-face interaction alternates with, and is frequently superimposed on, their virtual interaction. This means that the delocalization that accompanies other uses of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) occurs only in a limited way. What does take place is a reinterpretation of the forms of social interaction of whatever group of young people; at the same time, there is also an interpretation of new information technologies, adapting them to traditional forms of socialization. It is possible to observe how physical place and cyberplace are united and intermingled in various ways, as are face-to-face life and cyber-experience.

THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT IS THE ONE PART OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN WHICH THROWING MORE MONEY AT A PROBLEM PRODUCES USEFUL RESULTS. IT IS ALSO THE ONE AGENCY OF THE GOVERNMENT MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO DECAY AND FAILURE WHEN FUNDS ARE WITHDRAWN. THIS ARTICLE SUGGESTS THAT THE CLINTON DEFENSE PLAN FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IS BASED ON A STRATEGY TAILORED TO ITS BUDGET REQUEST, AND A BUDGET WHICH IS UNRELATED TO THE THREATS FACING THE COUNTRY. IT CONCLUDES THAT THIS SUGGESTS THE ADMINISTRATION'S LACK OF SERIOUSNESS ABOUT DEFENSE, BUT OWING TO THE MILITARY'S CURRENTLY HEALTHY CONDITION, IT DOES NOT SPELL IMMEDIATE DANGER.