The "Go Ask Alice" Book of Answers [antikvár]

Dear Go As\ Alice Readers and Writers, Teens and twentysomethings have lots of questions about their rapidly developing bodies and minds. Just as the perplexed Alicefollowers in Jefferson Airplane's 1960s anthem "White Rabbit" grow and shrink in a mesmerizing world of altered consciousness, thousands of you have coped with hormonally charged sexual desire, evolving self-esteem, opportunities to experiment with drugs, and pressure to become more responsible for educating, housing, nourishing, and supporting yourselves. Peers may have replaced your parents, or one of their old self-help books on the shelf in the den, as sources of information, sometimes offering conflicting opinions and incorrect "facts." Maybe you've never had the facts and support you've needed. Whatever the scenario, the questions remain. So, in 1993, Columbia University's dynamic Health Education Program combined this need for accurate, straightforward, and openminded health information with the far-reaching, interactive, and anonymous Internet frontier. The match produced Go As\ Alice!, and, since then, the Net and the quest for better health have never been the same. In the beginning, Go AsJ^ Alice! was available only to Columbia students. With its growing success, Alice moved to the World Wide Web to provide greater access beyond Columbia's campus. Since then, Alice has received a phenomenal global response, including a comment from a Saudi Arabian reader who wanted to express gratitude for the Alice site, explaining that it is impossible-and, in somé cases, illegal-to obtain certain types of health information through conventional Saudi resources, such as the library. During orientation, a new Columbia student eagerly expressed how he and his friends had been logging on for years from the Philippines, using Alice as their main source of information on sexual health. Across the United States, students read Alice in