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...They started kind of moving in to protect the fast break, so that kind of slowed us down,” Stenmark said. “They had a really good system defense. It was packed in and really good at sliding and not letting any easy goals...
...Association of America, which is in charge of movie ratings and advertising. "I was very troubled that this was out there," says MPAA boss Dan Glickman of the Captivity campaign. "This was not advertising that was approved by us. Our bottom line is to do what we can to protect children...
...scared that horror movies will ruin innocent children or that today's kids are too sophisticated to be hurt, frightened or moved by movies? Is it that the MPAA is not doing enough--or that there are no children left to protect...
...from adults. But Epstein's book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen, goes even further: it says that once they can prove themselves competent, kids should have all the rights of adults. "Just about everything we do tells [teens] they're incompetent," Epstein writes. "We protect them from danger (driving, cigarettes, alcohol); we don't trust them to work or own property ... We don't allow them to make basic decisions about their health, education or religion." Epstein's proposal? Allow any kid--of any age--who can "pass one or more relevant competency tests...
...Janina Sobota, a 60-year-old pensioner present at an anti-abortion rally, called the Tysiac case "a shame for Polish mothers." "A mother should protect her children, not to kill them," Sobota says. "There was no respect for life under communism," said Sobota, a mother of three. "Each time I was pregnant, the first words I heard from a doctor were: 'Pregnancy. Are we terminating?' We can't continue like that...