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Alan Keyes' one-word cure-all for America's problems probably sounds a lot like your grandmother's: marriage. On a recent summer morning in Oxnard, California, while towheaded children scampered in the sun, a grim-faced Keyes lectured their parents. "The No. 1 challenge of our life as a people," he railed from the podium, "is restoring the principle of the two-parent, marriage-based family." The moms and dads in the audience applauded. "And how do you get people to marry?" he asked, a grandfatherly smile creeping across his face. "Nagging has a lot to do with...
...Hitler the plans for the invasion of Europe." John Malone, CEO of Tele-Communications Inc., has offered to help Turner buy a television network, and Edgar Bronfman Jr., CEO of Seagram Co., may get a piece of that action, too. NBC president Robert Wright, while announcing that he thinks parent company General Electric plans to stand pat, coyly valued his network at about $11 billion, adding, "We just got a lot more expensive." And of course everyone is watching Rupert Murdoch, the envy of the media firmament, who with a recent infusion of cash from MCI is continuing to march...
...Allow the Baby Bells to provide long-distance service, which they have been barred from doing under terms of the 1984 breakup of their parent, AT&T. This would represent a defeat for the long-distance carriers, which vehemently oppose letting the Bells enter their fields until the local phone companies face strong competition for local service on their own turf--something that might take years to develop...
...chip that would be installed in television sets (adding an estimated $5 to $30 to the cost of a set). The chip would read encoded signals transmitted by broadcasters and cable operators. Shows might be rated, say, on an ascending scale of violence, from 1 to 4. If a parent set the V chip on No. 3, it would be instructed to delete any programs with that level of violence or higher...
...vast amount of erotica on the Internet, but exactly how much of this perverted smut is accessed by American children? As an experienced cyberjunkie, I know that the probability of an innocent third grader "accidentally'' logging on to a sex link is very minimal. Contrary to every parent's fears, children are not bombarded by explicit images every time they venture online. CLAIRE TELLING Tokyo...