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Until last week I thought the V chip was a zesty new snack food, and according to a recent survey, I'm not alone. A poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation reveals a lot of confusion among parents about use of the V chip, which is designed to let us block objectionable shows from our TVs. By law, starting July 1, half of all new TVs sold in the U.S. with screens of 13 in. or larger must have a V chip installed. By Jan. 1, all new sets must contain one. So last week I attended a demonstration...
...with a massive military exercise ?- including provocative bomber flights into Western airspace ?- designed to simulate repelling an attack from the West. "And the anti-NATO card will be played by most Russian political parties in the runup to December?s parliamentary elections and even in next year?s presidential poll," says Meier. So Russia plans to do more in Kosovo than simply keep the peace; it plans to prove a point...
...kids have taken note of this disregard, and if there's a lesson for parents in the Nickelodeon/TIME poll, it's tune in to your kids and show them some respect. While the majority of parents in the study claim to have great respect for kids, only 31% of kids feel that adults actually do respect them "a lot." This "respect gap" is even more glaring among kids in the 12- to 14 age group: 27% said they get little respect from adults or none...
Sensitive young teens emerge as a particularly interesting group in the poll. The middle school years are perilous. While only 14% of the 9- to 11-year-olds said they had ever tried alcohol, the figure rose to 42% among 12- to 14-year-olds. Drug use rose from zero to 11%; smoking from...
...looks. "This is a little bit sad," observes Wolf, "but it also shows parents what they're up against if they're trying to draw the line on certain clothes." The emphasis on having the right stuff to wear may also help explain why low-income kids in the poll worry the most about fitting...