Word: explicitness
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...avoid the charge of entrapment, agents cannot create their own chat rooms or initiate sexually explicit talk. The suspect "needs to take the first step," says David Knowlton, deputy assistant director of the FBI. "Then we'll talk with him." Applin says he gave Naughton several opportunities to back out of their planned encounter; at one point, Applin even joked that he had told the L.A.P.D., FBI and CIA about the dirty pictures Naughton had put on display. The warning went unheeded...
...would be pleasing to report that someone has finally made a knowing, attentive and, why not, explicit movie about what people do in bed. But Romance cannot live up, or down, to its fevered billing. It's a slow, morose little film about Marie (Caroline Ducey), who teaches school by day and at night gets primal lessons in sex, rough or tender. Bored with her beau, who declines intercourse, she has a tryst with hunky Paolo (Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi). But her real soul mate is the headmaster of her school (Francois Berleand), who binds and gags her while...
...like stumbling into electronic quicksand: every attempt to escape only drew unsuspecting Net surfers, including children, more deeply into Web pages full of explicit sex. That lurid webscam, allegedly cooked up by a Portuguese hacker and an Australian company, was halted last week by a federal court after the Federal Trade Commission uncovered the brazen scheme. It worked like this: first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling...
Lemann calls for more explicit discussion of what qualities should be included in "merit," and by extension, which qualities should be rewarded in an ideal meritocratic society. But in emphasizing the importance of creativity, determination and other non-academic personal qualities, he stumbles dangerously close to supporting a system in which advancement is determined primarily by subjective criteria. The danger is, of course, that the judgment of "character" could easily spawn more discrimination and favoritism than the judgment of "intelligence...
...focusing not just on the NMDA receptor but on a particular component of it. Called NR2B, it's very active in young animals (which happen to be good at learning), less active in adults (who aren't), and is found mostly in the forebrain and hippocampus (where explicit, long-term memories are formed). The researchers spliced the gene that creates NR2B into the DNA of ordinary mouse embryos to create the strain they called Doogie. Then they ran the mice through a series of standardized tests--sort of a rodent sat. In one, the mice were given a paw shock...