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Three related new studies by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (available at appcpenn.org illuminate TV's power to make parents crazy. Technology such as the V chip allows parents to block shows, and ratings are attached to many programs, but very few parents use either of them. Nine of 10 parents could not accurately identify the age ratings for a sampling of programs their children watched. And parents reported to researchers that they felt powerless to control their kids' media consumption...
...Jordan, mother of three and lead researcher for one of the Annenberg studies, says her work shows the importance of parental example. Parents who are heavy TV viewers have children who spend an average of 4.5 hours a day with the Internet, video games or TV. Families in the study reported that when there was a conflict over TV, kids simply retreated to their rooms, where 57% have TVs and 11% have Internet hookups. Giving a child her own TV might seem a handy way to avoid scuffles over the remote, but it is a terrible idea. TVs and computers...
Since posters and brochures in Annenberg Hall advertised Harborfest weekend activities, Harvard students made up a large contingent of supporters, sometimes having to speak on behalf of HUDS...
...true clique in the making from the moment we made our sweaty post-FOP introductions, my first-year roommates determined that we would exist as a pack. The four of us synchronized our alarm clocks. Our Annenberg schedule was timed so we would never have a solo meal...
...paper grade or the outcome of an election. But kept in perspective, things are never as bad as they may seem. In March of my freshman year, for example, I began to panic. For the first time since I had arrived at school, I felt that certain tables at Annenberg were off limits to me simply because I hadn't yet met the students sitting at them. I figured that I had attended the school for nearly seven months and if I hadn't crossed paths with someone yet, it was unlikely that I would even run into them...