Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...precisely these fears that have stopped Bonnie Fell of Skokie, Illinois, from signing up for the Internet access her three boys say they desperately need. "They could get bombarded with X-rated porn, and I wouldn't have any idea," she says. Mary Veed, a mother of three from nearby Hinsdale, makes a point of trying to keep up with her computer-literate 12-year-old, but sometimes has to settle for monitoring his phone bill. "Once they get to be a certain age, boys don't always tell Mom what they do," she says...
...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...
...proof, and faith is not subject to the scientific method. But the paradigm of the scientific method--testable propositions subjected to double-blind and replicable experimentation--is not the only criteria for evaluating academic undertakings. This is certainly true in the formative, exploratory phases in the development of an idea. If Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx or Martin Buber had been required to satisfy a committee before they could continue their research, the world might have been deprived of significant insights...
...those who disagree with Dr. Mack's research respond to it on the merits--by reviews, rebuttals, debates and books of their own. The marketplace of academic ideas is wide open. Dr. Mack's idea "shop" in the marketplace should not be shut down; nor should it be subjected to extraordinary "inspections." Critics should open their own idea "shops" and try to compete. Eventually the truth will out. That is what a university is all about...
...people keep pushing me. So right now I'm pondering over the idea of running," Vellucci said. "You can tell your readers, 'He's going to run for city councillor. He may not be on the ballot, but he's running for city council...