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This past week, WBAI, a public radio station in New York City, was so worried about the FCC’s recent trend of levying astronomically high fines on stations found in violation of obscenity rules that it decided to not air Allen Ginsberg’s epic Beat poem, “Howl.” Ironically, the impetus for the planned broadcast was that it was the 50th anniversary of a ruling that deemed the poem fit for the airwaves. On Oct. 3, 1957, the courts ruled that “Howl” contained...
...past relationships have always been fine,” said Gerard E. Bruder, chief of the biopsychology division at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, where Gorman directed the Mental Health Clinical Research Center. “I’ve never had any problems with...
...paranoid just yet. Robert Wood, who is working on the Harvard fly, estimates that these kinds of miniature bug-bots won't be fine-tuned for at least five years...
...That’s fine, but now they talk the President up to the heights of Ebenezer Scrooge. Behind the scenes, President Bush has offered his own plan to continue the program with $5 billion over five years, but he opposes the Democrats’ proposal for pumping money into states that are spending their grants on covering mostly adults or, in some cases, families of four making over $80,000 a year—in other words, not poor children. President Bush also has stressed that since he took office, his administration has added 2 million children to SCHIP...
...Ultimately, the level of categorization needed in practical situations will determine the degree to which we break down or lump together these many different peoples. The sensitivity we must acquire is merely a recognition of this tension—that it is a fine line to tread on the spectrum between accuracy and practicality, and that at any point in the continuum we risk both imprecision and overgeneralization...