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...think things are crazy now, though, wait until the politicians get hold of a report coming out this week. A research team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has conducted an exhaustive study of online porn--what's available, who is downloading it, what turns them on--and the findings (to be published in the Georgetown Law Journal) are sure to pour fuel on an already explosive debate...
After the war Salk headed the viral-research program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he gradually devoted his studies to polio. When he began his work, medical wisdom held that vaccines, to be effective, should use live viruses that had been rendered harmless in the laboratory. Salk believed it would be possible to make a vaccine using killed viruses; this method, he thought, was preferable since it carried less risk of actually causing the disease the vaccine was meant to prevent. When animal tests on an experimental vaccine proved successful, he moved on to human tests in which...
Perhaps the most dangerous aspect about desensitization is its sheer insidiousness. It's all too easy to overlook, dismiss or parody this essential characteristic of the whole process. When the New York Times interviewed Pittsburgh moviegoers about Dole's speech, several of them argued against desensitization by maintaining that people can tell the difference between fiction and reality. The remarks of Kristy Larsen, a 17-year-old high school junior, were typical. "People can make up their own minds," she said. "I saw `Natural Born Killers' seven times. I really liked it. But I didn't go out and shoot...
...think themselves Capable--of preventing the unsavory behavior they see in movies or hear about in songs from tainting their interactions with others. But for every enlightened citizen capable of making such careful distinctions, there are ten less enlightened citizens who cannot. Jennifer Jablonski, a 14-yearold from Pittsburgh, told the Times interviewer about her older brother, who behaves very differently towards her since he started listening to rap music and watching R-rated movies. "He changed," she said. "Just from listening to rap, he is starting to use bad words. He calls me bad names all the time like...
Other leading players in the cast of charactersfloating across the Lionel stage included matt,who was "Oklahoma-man" long before he knew we knewhe existed; Chris, whose sister and green backpackI met long before I figured out that Chris ofacross-the-hall was really Richard of Pittsburgh;and Dan, from whom I shied long before I realizedthat his dismissive California monotone was notdirected solely...