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...pretend. It's the difference between watching a video game in the basement and making an untimely visit to your parents' bedroom. For most American children, sex education begins just before puberty, but violence they can get from infancy in Tom and Jerry pain-fests on the Cartoon Network. Whatever the MPAA's argument, their raters must believe that kiss-kiss is more toxic than bang-bang, since four times as many films are rated NC17 for sex as for violence...
...dealers, auction houses - even museums - that know the true provenance of the items. How do you solve these cases in a country like Greece, where almost every household holds some ancient relic or icon? It's impossible to monitor every inch of the country. But we have a good network of informants. We're busting cases daily. Your investigations forced the J. Paul Getty Museum to relinquish a number of looted Greek works. Who's next? I've collected enormous amounts of information in the five years I've headed this operation. You can bet we'll be seeing more...
Even more inspiring are efforts by one children's network to fight the prevailing notion that TV is the Great Satan. Programs are explained in terms of how they improve a tot's language-comprehension skills, his abstract-thinking skills, his "auditory-discrimination" skills--which, as best as I can tell, involve a child's ability to sing the Dora the Explorer theme song at top volume until Mommy's ears bleed. The network's website has a parent's section detailing the miracle of "connected learning" that occurs via the media's ability "to help children make connections between...
...back to 1994, when Bill Clinton appointed Kenneth Kizer, a hard-charging doctor and former Navy diver, as the VA's under secretary for health. Kizer decentralized the VA's cumbersome health bureaucracy and held regional managers more accountable. Patient records were transferred to a system-wide computer network, which has made its way into only 3% of private hospitals. When a veteran is treated, the doctor has the vet's complete medical history on a laptop. In the private sector, 20% of all lab tests are needlessly repeated because the doctor doesn't have handy the results...
...honchos might have been thinking the same thing about Mel Gibson when, a few days after the actor-director was stopped for drunk driving and lurched into an anti-Jewish raveup at the arresting officer, the network scotched plans for a series to be produced by Gibson about the Holocaust...