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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raped were freed from a macabre underground dungeon in a home of the accused ringleader, Marc Dutroux, near the southern city of Charleroi. Police dug up the bodies of four other girls, ages 8 to 19, missing for more than a year. The tragedy transfixed Belgium, and national TV broadcast their funerals live. Shock then turned to outrage when it was disclosed that Dutroux was a convicted kidnapper-rapist, released early from prison against prosecutors' advice. Worse, vital information about the original abductions was withheld by competing investigators, and Dutroux allegedly had high-level protection...
...headquarters, a cluster of brick buildings 12 miles from Aberdeen's main post, confessed they were not shocked by the charges. They described a high school atmosphere on base where gossip about sex rustled among the troops. "There's lots of talk about relationships, but it's whispered, not broadcast widely," says Private Xanett Salgador-Hill, 18, a mechanic from Savannah, Georgia. "It's the same as in the civilian world, but people expect more from the military." Private Bashir Gray, 18, has heard the rumors too. "People were saying some of the drill sergeants were flirting with some...
...broadcast networks, however, are all too aware of what Everett is missing, and they are desperate to do something about it. Distracted by home videos, computer games and round-the-clock cable channels such as Disney, the Cartoon Network and most significantly of all, Nickelodeon, children have abandoned traditional Saturday-morning television like so many grownups shunning whole milk. For the first six weeks of the new season, on average 4.16 million kids 2 to 11 years old tuned into Saturday-morning network shows, down 20% from last season, according to Nielsen Media Research, and a whopping 60% from...
...fare it serves up in the evenings (The Secret World of Alex Mack) but rather with repeats of its weekday cartoons like the clever Rugrats, as well as reruns of older Saturday-morning shows that were canceled by the major networks years ago. "When Nickelodeon is able to beat broadcast networks with repeats of Muppet Babies and Beetlejuice," notes Jamie Kellner. head of the WB, "it suggests the matter goes far beyond programming...
...hour-long discussion and subsequent town hall meeting were broadcast live by C-Span...