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...shootings. Some reasons cut closer to home. During prom season, nearly half of teen car-crash deaths are alcohol related, according to a recent study by Nationwide Insurance and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. And teacher sexual misconduct can also be a problem. A Tennessee high school set an age limit at the prom this year after a former teacher who had gone to prison for having sex with a pupil was rearrested for contacting the boy again. A Texas teacher was fired after asking to take a student to the prom...
...R.E.M. and some improbable partners like the Gun Owners of America, the techno-musician has joined the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, whose object is to preserve so-called Net neutrality. That would keep broadband providers from charging premiums to content providers (like Google or MySpace) for faster connections, which could limit consumer access to some sites. "If Congress guts Net neutrality," says Moby, "independent sites would be choked off, and the Internet will become a private toll road." And that's a whale of an issue...
...alternative vocations for unemployed state nanny-ists? Perhaps designing special safety ladders. Mandating tricycle wheels. Compulsory vegetable-eating regimes? The sky—nay, too dangerous—the ground is the limit...
...ironic that Harvard University is resisting neighborhood calls to limit institutional development at the Arnold Arboretum, because Harvard itself opposed institutional development at the Arboretum’s doorstep at least two times in recent memory...
...Just as the law prefers parents to be one male and one female, the law prefers to limit the number of parents to two. Maybe this is because two is the number of people it takes to make a child in the first place. Maybe it's because all the government forms are already printed with two signature lines. Maybe it's because two worked so well for us for so long. But that hasn't been the reality for several decades, and it's time for the law to catch...