Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week that President Clinton signed a telecommunications bill, which contains easily the most reviled piece of legislation in cyberspace, the Communications Decency Act. The law imposes stiff penalties for posting or transmitting "indecent" material online--a provision that strips from online communications the First Amendment guarantees that protect the written and spoken word...
Though the staff would protect the exchange of pornographic materials over the Internet, it would handcuff all state attempts to keep this material from reaching young children. It has long been recognized that the state has a role in preventing the corruption of its youth, and only the foolish would deny that this material is inappropriate for their possession...
Legislation to protect the youth of America from indecent material is nothing new. While the medium in this case, the Internet, is different, the spirit of such regulation, and its enforcement, is well-rooted in this country. Pictures of naked people do not constitute the currency of the "marketplace of ideas" and are therefore not worthy of First Amendment protection. Any attack on patently indecent material is no infringement of anyone's civil liberties...
...Ombudsman Program, a national panel of independent transplant experts. Health Net has never reversed a decision of the MCOP. The panel has twice recommended against bone-marrow transplants. In the past three years, Health Net has approved 179 bone-marrow transplants, 55 of them for breast-cancer patients. To protect our medical groups from any adverse financial exposure for bone-marrow cases, Health Net has funded a special pool for transplants of all kinds. We are the only health plan to do so. Health Net has paid out more than $32 million from this pool in the past three years...
...wonder. Thousands of HIV particles are reproducing themselves in their favored target: a specialized group of white blood cells called helper T cells. These cells, also known as CD4 cells, are the linchpin of the immune system, and when they are attacked the body marshals all its resources to protect them...