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Number of hours of dead airtime broadcast on Nickelodeon on Sept. 29 as part of an effort to encourage kids to exercise. The average American child watches four hours...
...recent broadcast of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” America’s perennially cynical libertarian launched into a diatribe protesting the recent phenomenon of lactivism. Yes, lactivism...
...were expected to do with it all. Officially, an inquest tries to answer four key questions: who died, when, where and how? It is required by law whenever anyone dies of anything other than natural causes. But Diana and Dodi weren't just anyone. "Much has been written or broadcast [about their deaths]," Baker said, "often showing a disregard for the facts." So along with answering the four key questions, he gave the jury another task: "to allay suspicion and rumor," to give the public a chance to finally find out how Diana and Dodi died and "perhaps to learn...
...Despite the clash at Shwedagon, the monks continued on, their fervor broadcast over loudspeakers: "Let us overthrow the government." By early afternoon, the demonstrators had marched the two miles to the Sule Pagoda, another holy site. Again, the path to the pagoda itself was blocked by hundreds of security forces, many with bayonets fixed. The protestors sat and prayed in front of them. More soldiers armed with rifles arrived, though, and most of the crowd stood up and walked away. Twenty minutes later, the troops opened fire - a 10-second burst above the heads of those marchers who had dared...
...democracy with constraints," says the diplomat. "You're free to criticize, but you can't bring up the ethnic question, or you'll end up in jail." Kagame points out that it was a free press that fostered genocide. (In the early 1990s, the Hutu supremacist Radio Mille Collines broadcast messages for Hutus to "weed their fields" and "eliminate ... the cockroaches" - a signal for the genocide to begin.) "With time, [freedom] is only increasing," says Kagame. "But if people expected us to start from 100% ... Take a moment, and look at what we went through. If we are making this...