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...issue came to a head most dramatically last July, after a U.S. postal inspector, posing as a customer in Tennessee, downloaded X-rated pictures from an adult computer bulletin board in California. Though the images might have been acceptable by California standards, they were judged obscene in the Bible Belt, and the owners of the bulletin board were convicted of transporting obscene material across state lines. Their appeal may be headed for the Supreme Court...
Since Marx may now be moving in some other worlds, there may yet be a case for astrology as well. Daniel Belt Hantry Ford II. Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus
Opponents who claim the law constitutes an infringement of the state onto individual rights are taking the argument for hands-off government to an illogical extreme. Putting on a seat belt takes three seconds--for most drivers the act is already second nature. The devices are not at all uncomfortable to wear. And there is no question that they save lives...
Many states already have seat belt laws--California, Washington, New York, Michigan, Connecticut, North Carolina and Maryland, to name a few. Sadly, Massachusetts doesn't have the greatest record on mandating the use of seat belts. In 1986, 54 percent of the state's citizens voted against a similar measure...
...coterie of loyalists expanded considerably once affluent women began to reject the gold-chain-belt opulence of the 1980s. "Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see that they 'get it,"' says Sander, who often speaks with missionary zeal for her aesthetic. "I see so many people following, and that's such a nice thing. You see they are getting better taste, better culture; they understand why something doesn't have to be seen from 100 meters away." Says Martha Stewart of her Sander wardrobe: "Jil's responded to the needs of people like me. I'm busy; I travel...