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...broadest sense, movies are getting more religious. According to Baehr, only one film in 1985 (The Trip to Bountiful) had "positive Christian content," compared with 69 in 2003 (including Finding Nemo, Spy Kids 3D and Master and Commander). Of course, it all depends on what counts as Christian and who's doing the counting. What's irrefutable is the growing number of theocentric movie websites, most recently a sophisticated one launched in February by the magazine Christianity Today...
...world of designer drugs created to evade detection. But the agency has started to close the gap. At the 2002 Winter Games, WADA tested the arriving athletes and surprised them with a more sophisticated test to detect darbopoeitin, a bioengineered hormone that dopes blood by increasing its oxygen content. On the basis of those results, the I.O.C. stripped three athletes of their eight medals...
Superheroes. You can't live with them and you can't live without them. They are inexorably tied to the history of American comic books. After the 1950s restrictions on comic's content, the popularity of superheroes kept the medium alive while simultaneously stigmatizing it as a children's entertainment. Beginning with the first generation of "underground" comix artists, most cartoonists interested in exploring the artistic possibilities of the medium have treated superheroes like a form of radiation - an invisible energy best left ignored lest you get seriously burned. Recently that prejudice has been eroding as more and more alty...
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More and more news websites these days require registration, forcing you to give them your name, age, occupation, income level and other personal information before they will let you read their content. For users wary of letting anyone--never mind a bunch of journalists--invade their privacy to that extent, Bug Me Not provides a solution. Just go to bugmenot.com and enter the address of the site you want to visit. Bug Me Not will offer one or more previously registered names that you can use. If there isn't one available, the site invites you to submit your user...