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...year. Her reason: the passage of the 1990 Children's Television Act, which sets advertising limits on children's programming and requires TV stations to air at least some fare that serves the educational needs of kids. "For more than 20 years, ACT has tried to get the public-interest laws that govern broadcasting to apply to children," said Charren. "With the passage of the 1990 Children's Television Act, this goal has been achieved. People who want better TV for kids now have Congress on their side...
...Etzioni and his followers, the question is how best to promote responsibility before imposing it. "In the end, free people are going to decide for themselves how to act," says Roger Conner of the American Alliance for Rights & Responsibilities, a bipartisan public-interest group. "How they feel about a duty that may be imposed on them is crucial. Way before something like Norplant is coerced, there has to be serious education and the widespread availability of birth control. If those conditions are met, there is a far greater possibility that both the individual and society will accept imposition. A regime...
What nation locks up the highest percentage of its population? The Soviet Union? South Africa? Guess again: that dubious distinction belongs to the U.S. A report issued last week by the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based public-interest group that advocates reform of sentencing practices, puts the , rate of incarceration at 426 per 100,000 people in the U.S., 333 in South Africa and 268 in the Soviet Union. It finds that America imprisons black males at a rate four times that of South Africa...
...graduates to devote themselves to pro bono work and helping the poor rather than pursuing ever higher salaries at big-name firms. Has Bok forgotten that it was he who appointed a new Harvard Law School dean who, after just a few months in office, eliminated the school's public-interest career counselling office in an effort to save money...
Because students have limited time to pursue job leads, on-campus recruitment becomes the course of least resistance. By eliminating public-interest counseling, Dean Clark guarantees that fewer students will seek out public interest employment...