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...name of the children and their parents that lawmakers are racing to fight cyberporn. The first blow was struck by Senators Exon and Coats, who earlier this year introduced revisions to an existing law called the Communications Decency Act. The idea was to extend regulations written to govern the dial-a-porn industry into the computer networks. The bill proposed to outlaw obscene material and impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years on anyone who knowingly makes "indecent" material available to children under...
Lichten said the University is currentlyobtaining permits with agencies that govern theCharles River...
...much less fervid, single-minded country than it was under Khomeini. Suffering as it does from a discredited ideology, unbridled corruption and a ruined economy, it most nearly resembles the Soviet Union in its last years. At the moment there is no realistic alternative to the revolutionary institutions that govern Iran, but in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s there was no obvious alternative to the Communist Party, and still it collapsed. Moreover, Iran is threatened by the pull of Western culture and democracy. Iranians crave the prosperity they see in the West- but especially the West's freedom...
Just how estrogen works in the brain remains obscure, though research by Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University has shown that the hormone increases the number of connections between nerve cells in the hippocampus, a region that helps govern memory. Estrogen also increases the production of acetylcholine, a brain chemical that is abnormally low in Alzheimer's patients...
Zedillo: Well, I couldn't govern if I were afraid. Obviously right after Colosio's assassination my family and I were very concerned. I wouldn't like to use the word frightened, but we were very concerned. Little by little and despite incidents during the presidential campaign, we learned not to be afraid...