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...chip will be welcomed by many parents who despair of monitoring the multitude of TV programs available to their kids. The device has already been a godsend for politicians--a way of seeming to take action on TV violence while avoiding sticky issues of censorship or government control. Most children's activists welcome the device, yet recognize it is not a panacea. "The V chip doesn't do anything to decrease violence," says Arnold Fege of the National Parent-Teacher Association. "There are parents who are not going to use it at all. But it does give parents some control...
...protesters, she was also aware that somehow it wasn't her fight and she could only be a spectator and an outsider. She says the experience made her eager to return to her own roots. After only a few more weeks in South East Asia, Phillips returned to her parent's home in Claremont, California and began working on White Rabbit...
...also a beginning of sorts. Faced with the existence of these planets, astronomers must now revise their theories to fit the new facts. To begin with, theorists have to scramble to explain how the 51 Pegasi planet could have formed and survived intact so close to its parent star. The planet around 70 Virginis is also problematic: its orbit is egg-shaped rather than circular, which suggests to some astronomers that it formed more like a star than like a planet. Indeed, many experts think it is technically a brown dwarf--a star that never got big enough to ignite...
...this is a natural outgrowth of the TIME/CNN poll and CNN's treatment of TIME's Man of the Year," notes Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine. "But it is also very much in the spirit of what Time Warner and TBS (parent of CNN) were seeking when we signed the definitive agreement to merge last fall...
...remarkable short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River, and two autobiographical novels, Annie John and Lucy, have not been enough to wash her feelings out to sea, and she restates them again in Autobiography. Anyone who imagines that tensions between husband and wife exceed those between parent and child is not paying attention to Jamaica Kincaid...