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Although he has said that he plans to return to work, we call on Chief Justice Brock to step down from his post on the Supreme Court. His impropriety has undermined the public's confidence in the New Hampshire legal system and caused those not from New Hampshire to wonder if such corrupt practices reach into other states. While senators argued that errors in judgement are not good enough reasons to force someone to resign, a judge, especially a Supreme Court justice, should be held to a higher standard. Members of the judicial branch of government are entrusted to uphold...
...their job to decide what is right and what is wrong and to ensure that justice is done for every American. If the men and women of the justice system are unable to distinguish what is right from what is clearly wrong in their own lives, as Brock has proven, they are unworthy of the privilege to decide for others...
Lots of things, according to a new survey released to TIME. After studying nearly 300 families nationwide who watch TV less than six hours a week, Barbara Brock, a recreation-management professor at Eastern Washington University, concluded that most want to rediscover a gem called time. The Gurney family in Rhinebeck, N.Y., for instance, prefers woodland treks, charades and stories by candlelight. "It's really fun," says Franklin, 11, "because you're not glued...
...only potential fringe benefit, however, since TV gobbles up 40% of Americans' free time. Brock's TV-free families seem to have found antidotes to some of the nation's social ills. Inactivity? More than 80% of nearly 500 children in the survey play sports. No interest in reading? Four-fifths of TV-free children have above-average reading skills; 41% read an hour or more a day. Fractured family time? Nine of 10 families eat dinner together at least four times a week. Overall they average nearly an hour a day of meaningful conversation. "It seems like such...
Since only 2% of Americans live without a television, Brock initially despaired of finding even 20 TV-free families. Yet small ads in three family-oriented publications eventually elicited 280 responses last March to her 22-page questionnaire. The respondents were diverse, cutting across a swath of incomes, education levels, ethnic and racial backgrounds. But they were not entirely typical American families: nearly half had moms at home, and nearly 40% of the children were younger than three...