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...favorite cassettes are, psychologists point out, behaving no differently from toddlers who want their favorite story read to them over and over. (The VCR may actually give parents more control over their kids' viewing.) Video games may distress adults with their addictive potential, but researchers have found no exceptional harm in them -- and even some possible benefits, like improving hand-eye coordination...
...know the kind. Literary wide-bodies with plenty of plot that allow you to leave the real world in the first half paragraph and stay away through several flight-delay announcements. No-qual prose and cereal-box characters are customary, though an occasional lapse into good writing does no harm. The Odyssey and Moby Dick, both wide-bodies before their time, would have been perfect airport novels. Herewith a random grab of half a dozen new airporters, none written by Homer or Herman Melville...
Whether the Review is guilty of inserting the passage or not, Tufts' Zappia said that the negative national press coverage of the incident may indirectly harm other college conservative journals...
...they really know what they're getting? Some answers can be found in the FDA's updated Food Defect Action Levels list, which indicates limits for "natural or unavoidable" substances in processed food. While people might blanch at eating insects and | their excreta, many entomologists insist that the only harm is psychological. Some even contend that the government should allow more bugs in food so that crops can be grown with fewer pesticides...
...float" on a mass of superheated rock. California's San Andreas Fault, for instance, marks the dividing line between the North American and Pacific plates, which are slowly slipping past each other. But the New Madrid fault lies in the middle of the North American plate, seemingly far from harm's way. Why do earthquakes occur in such an out- of-the-way spot? By analyzing seismic data, scientists have concluded that the New Madrid fault is a failed rift, or break, in the North American plate. Had it progressed further, the embryonic gap might have created a body...