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After several rounds of congressional hearings that aired concerns about violence on TV, the four networks last month announced a joint response. Starting in September, they will attach a warning label -- DUE TO SOME VIOLENT CONTENT, PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED -- to shows with high levels of mayhem. Over the past two weeks, network executives have trooped before junketing TV journalists in Los Angeles to stress their concerns about violence -- and assert that they aren't the only ones to blame. Next Monday a heavyweight lineup of TV producers, network executives and other industry bigwigs will meet to explore the violence issue...
When five different Senators and Representatives independently attach themselves to the same second-string issue, one tends to assume the issue is a phony, a subject about which it is very easy to posture while spending nothing and upsetting no one. When the issue is television violence, which has been the subject of a dozen high-profile, low-impact congressional hearings since 1952, the Capitol Hill moralizing seems almost retro...
...shares a number of features with modern birds. "In Archaeopteryx, for example," he explains, "the fibula ((the thin bone in the leg)) touches the ankle. In birds that doesn't happen, and the same is true of Mononychus. Birds have a keeled sternum ((or breastbone)), where the flight muscles attach. Mononychus also had a keeled sternum." Some of Mononychus' wristbones were fused together, which is another hallmark of adaptation for flight, suggesting that Mononychus may have evolved from a flying animal, just as ostriches and emus are descended from flying birds. That being the case, it was probably covered with...
Next, digestive juices dissolve the thick wall of the oocysts, triggering a growth cycle that ends in a reproductive orgy. Tiny protozoans attach themselves to intestinal walls and begin to mature. While there, scientists speculate, they probably exude some irritating toxin -- just the thing to cause the host organism to expel the oocysts produced by the adult organisms through diarrhea and vomiting. "A sick person will produce 100 million oocysts a day," marvels Cliver...
...regimes of Eastern Europe exposed the bankruptcy of the collectivist doctrines that lay at the heart of all socialist thought. "Socialism is a dirty word today," says French sociologist Alain Touraine. The French and Italian socialist parties are even considering changing their names to avoid the opprobrium that voters attach to them...