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Number of instances of violent, profane or sexual content in 180 hours of TV programming, or one instance every 4.8 min., according to a new Parents Television Council report. It looked at original content aired between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on six major stations...
...coincident efficiency gains may not be enough to unseat BitTorrent, according to Chen Fang ’10, who worked last year as a User Assistant for FAS Computer Services. Fang says he first encountered the news about Tribler a few weeks ago, while on the popular content-aggregation site digg.com. Fang, who conceded that “Tribler looks pretty,” said he doubted that students already using stripped-down versions of BitTorrent would make the switch based on the supposed advantages of the currency approach. For those interested, the Tribler software can be downloaded...
Voluntary testing and recalls have clearly failed to stop lead-painted children's jewelry from entering the U.S. market. After the CPSC recalled 150 million pieces of toy jewelry in 2004, new guidelines "urged manufacturers generally to reduce the lead content of their products." Since then at least 21 million more pieces of children's jewelry--including 6 million this year alone--have been recalled because of lead-poisoning risk, ranging from $3 fake-diamond rings sold at Big Lots! to $95 Juicy Couture charm bracelets. The CPSC recommended a federal ban on lead exceeding 0.06% by weight in children...
...world has become an interconnected village, community service has gone global as well. More and more Americans are ambassadors of goodwill, no longer content to let Washington alone define our nation's links to the world. Every day I learn about another inspiring and ingenious effort by Americans to make connections, share some know-how and improve the world...
...Orwellian. Consider the first category. If someone is forced, by law or by social pressure or any other reason, to "volunteer" for a necessary job that he or she otherwise would not take, someone else is going to lose that job. This someone else presumably was or would be content with what the job paid - at least content enough not to quit. Now he or she is unemployed, and someone else who doesn't want the job is stuck with it. What's the point...