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...screens sit silent, our video games and radio stations and Internet chat rooms will not. And if the movie and television industry would like to successfully re-enter the playing field after the strike is over, they’re going to have to exercise more quality control over content than we’ve seen in the last few years. (Read: “The Mummy Returns.” No wonder ticket sales are down...
...answer to all of those questions is, at least at first glance, a definitive “yes.” I am as wary as the next person of government- or university-sponsored speech police censoring the signs put up by student groups, the content of newspapers or the commerce at newsstands. And I do not wish to explore the complicated issue of the status of pornography as speech. But the question of legality is only one small part of this picture. The bigger question is, why do we as a community and as individuals find these portrayals...
...contrast, if melting ice caps dilute the salt content of the sea, major ocean currents like the Gulf Stream could slow or even stop, and so would their warming effects on northern regions. More snowfall reflecting more sunlight back into space could actually cause a net cooling. Global warming could, paradoxically, throw the planet into another...
...While the book is content-heavy and meant to be read more as a newspaper or a magazine than a guide, we still do want it to be a guide in the sense that it has things that maybe aren't in the Unofficial Guide or are found in different places," Heller adds...
...automobile and eBay is just as likely to turn up your neighbors' five-year-old Pontiac as GM's latest top-of-the-range four-wheeler. The effect is as pleasing as browsing in a bookstore where new and used titles mingle democratically on the shelves, arranged by their content and not by the glossiness of their covers...