Liz Funk

Facebook.com is the one watering hole where every college personality -- from the school spirit-y sorority sister, to the video game-designing computer geek, to aspiring academic who studies eight hours a hour -- can unite at one web-site and read about the details of one another's lives. It's a place...

It is the end of my first semester of college away from home, and I know only one thing for certain: college students are really sexed-up. Despite that the young women in my dorm bemoan the dearth of straight, available, good-looking guys in our school (and in New York...

At a holiday gathering earlier this month, I noted with surprise and slight distaste that my friend's eleven year old sister had been "Abercrombie-d." The little girl who I had watched grow up, from sporting a little pink onesie, to wearing pastel corduroy overalls, to donning her first pair...

There are 165 young people, ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-two sitting in a large convention hall. Chilled-out guys in Abercrombie jeans and pin-striped shirts tap their feet to music thumping out of a stereo. Young women in pencil skirts and cable-knit sweaters sit in groups and chat amicably....

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