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...free-style skiing over bumps, or "moguls," and short-track speed skating. Four others are being classed as "demonstration" sports -- a shadowland category, bestowing medals that are not real medals -- that will be dropped altogether after this year. It is up or out: they must become medal sports or disappear from the Games...
Such problems will not disappear if we allow euthanasia, which would allow medicalized killing of the elderly. Nor will they disappear if we create a national health care system which would decide according to cost who receives what care when, making exorbitant outlays for those who would die without extraordinary treatment...
...biology has a funny way of confounding expectations. Rather than disappear, the evidence for innate sexual differences only began to mount. In medicine, researchers documented that heart disease strikes men at a younger age than it does women and that women have a more moderate physiological response to stress. Researchers found subtle neurological differences between the sexes both in the brain's structure and in its functioning. In addition, another generation of parents discovered that, despite their best efforts to give baseballs to their daughters and sewing kits to their sons, girls still flocked to dollhouses while boys clambered into...
Other organizations will carry on the kidvid cause, and Charren herself will not disappear. But the demise of ACT leaves a void and raises a question: For all Charren's efforts, has children's TV got any better? In some ways, as Charren readily admits, it is worse. In the 1970s, partly because of Charren's lobbying, the networks added a host of informational shows for children, from ABC's Afterschool Specials to CBS's newsmagazine for kids, 30 Minutes. During the Reagan years, however, government regulation eased, and most of those shows were canceled or scaled back. Though...
...still speaking to me (though an agnostic on whether there was a conspiracy, I had written skeptically about the methodology of some of them), and one told me of a buff in Canada who made a specialty of tracking down lesser known figures in the case who might otherwise disappear into the mists of history...