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...cruelest pop-culture abortions happened in 1952 when, right at the height of America's crime-fiction golden age, all the crime comicbooks had to cease publishing. Under government pressure, the industry created the self-censoring Comics Code Authority, which would literally put a seal of approval on "safe" comix, none of which could involve remotely realistic or unpunished crime, among other things...
...required to sign "compacts" that typically stipulate, among other things, how many hours parents will read with their children each week. At the KIPP Academies, two successful charter schools in Houston and New York City, parents, teachers and students sign contracts pledging everything from adherence to the dress code (teachers and students) to checking homework (parents). If students repeatedly slip up, the academies can send them back to a regular public school...
Microsoft has the allegiance of more game-development companies--no surprise considering the software giant has been aggressively courting them for 18 months, even buying a couple along the way. That means Xbox will be launching with between 15 and 25 games. Nintendo, true to its code of silence, won't say how many outside developers are working on GameCube, but that it has any is significant. Previously, the company subsisted almost entirely on its own games. Now popular sports games like Electronic Arts' Madden NFL will be on the roster...
...universal remote cannot control a pet rock, much less a satellite dish. First you have to take it around and introduce it to each gadget in turn, punching in the proper code for each make and model, so that the remote knows what signals to send to which device. With some remotes, this phase is sheer torture. The extremely fancy Philips Pronto ($399), for example, forced me to watch 20 minutes of Chains of Love before I could figure out how to change the channel on my TV. No one should have to go through that...
...told his computer to look for papers that had blocks of six or more words in a row in common. It found a lot more than that: 122 of his students are now up on charges that they copied their work; and at U.Va., famous for its honor code, that means expulsion. The real culprit? Bloomfield blames e-mail for the cheating epidemic, which makes it easier for students to pass papers around promiscuously. He who lives by the sword...