Word: restrictions
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...controls, like those AOL has offered for years, but MSN's are better. In addition to choosing from three preset levels for access to Web browsing, e-mail and instant messaging, parents can customize which sites their kids can and cannot visit. When children try to go to a restricted site, they have the option of e-mailing their parents for permission. And at the end of the week, parents get an activity log detailing exactly which sites their kids visited and how much time they spent there. AOL promises a similar feature--AOL Guardian--by year...
Another sad day has come for our comrades down in New Haven. Yale University has adopted new policies to severely restrict students’ use of Kazaa, a popular Internet file-sharing program. By limiting Kazaa connections to snail-like speeds and employing a private eye to spy on students’ music preferences, Yale is moving ever closer to the closed-minded, medieval mood that its architecture does so much to create...
...girls don’t want to restrict themselves by being classified as a female final club or a sorority. “We want to keep our options open,” Perkins says...
Although Augusta National and other private clubs have the legal right to restrict their membership along gender lines, it is morally repugnant to do so. To base membership decisions in any institution along gender lines, whether it is explicitly stated in membership rules or not, is discrimination pure and simple; the entire golf community should push for an end to Augusta National’s reprehensible admission criteria...
...Catholics during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. In effect, Plavsic admitted Bosnian Serb troops co-operated with Yugoslav army units - evidence that could be used to help secure the conviction of former President Slobodan Milosevic. BELARUS My God Is Your God The Senate approved a bill that would restrict the activities of small religious communities and help entrench the dominant position of the Orthodox Church. The bill banned organized prayer by groups of less than 20 people and prohibited religious communities that have been in Belarus for less than 20 years from publishing literature or setting up missions. MIDDLE...