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...says the channel's marketing and communication director, Pierre Garnier. Unlike the GAY-TV audience, who can pick up the channel free with a satellite dish, Pink TV viewers will pay an extra j9 a month to watch the selection of game shows, documentaries and lifestyle programs. A secure code will also allow access to four adult films it plans to air per week. This has caused the channel's launch to be delayed for two months; while France's broadcasting regulator csa has given approval for Pink TV to show porn, it's still not satisfied that the channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely Pink | 11/2/2003 | See Source »

...issue a public report until June of this year—and when it did so, it refused to release the names or locations of factories, shielding offending factories from any public scrutiny and rendering the reports themselves impossible to verify. Further, the FLA has no provision in its code of conduct against sexual harassment or sex discrimination, and has never taken action without the WRC investigating and acting first. It doesn’t take a Harvard student (or president) to note that this is not a track record that inspires confidence...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky and Emma S. Mackinnon, S | Title: Trick or Treat Workers Right | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...book, Ely (pronounced EE-lee) argued that judges cannot interpret the Constitution by its language and history alone, nor can they infer a code of morality from it. Instead, Ely said, judges have an obligation to protect the democratic process as laid out in the Constitution...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Constitutional Scholar, Former Law School Professor Dies at 64 | 10/29/2003 | See Source »

Those colorful plastic bracelets popularized by Madonna and Avril Lavigne have taken on a risque new twist. The bangles convey a not-so-secret sexual code depending on their color, indicating different levels of intimacy starting from hugs. In a game some kids call Snap, they yank the rubbery bracelets from the wrists of fellow students to indicate which kind of sex they would like to have. Grabbing a red bracelet is asking for a lap dance, for example, and a blue one can mean oral sex. The code has even spread internationally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents: Brace Yourselves | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

While most kids seem to take the code as merely an inside joke, some schools like Fort McCoy in Marion County, Fla., have banned the bracelets. "It's a hot-button topic here," says school-board member Sue Mosley, who has heard complaints from parents at middle schools. Some kids defend the bracelets as just kitschy accessories. "I've been wearing my bracelet since eighth grade," says 15-year-old Roby Behrens of Los Angeles. "It's a fashion thing. You don't need them to have sex, but people do use them to kiss or get to third base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents: Brace Yourselves | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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