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...focusing on sexual content has the best chance of succeeding because it would fall under the category of obscenity for minors, which is a widely accepted concept. In contrast, the measure to regulate violent games "is hopeless because there is no recognized constitutional principle that allows the government to shield children from violent expression," says Stone...
...Dorian Gray by the American artist Martin Kline, at first glance looks remarkably like a gigantic black mud splat. Kline used encaustic, a pasty wax-based paint, to make this work, and the result is a highly textured oval mound of pigment, roughly the shape and convexity of a shield, that juts forward close to three inches from the center of the board. The board itself is a vertically-oriented rectangle (roughtly three feet by four feet) of plain unfinished wood with a slightly raised strip frame around the edges and a light, blond-colored grain. Ironically enough, Dorian Gray...
...Wasn’t culture meant to be a shield?” he asked. “What is culture, what is civilization? It’s meant to be a limit...
...absorbed by the roots of the trees that line the mountainsides. But the mountains in Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind the towns of Real, Infanta and General Nakar no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become instruments of death-powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. Last Monday, Mary Anne Bantucan, a 34-year-old schoolteacher from Maragondon, was returning to her hometown from Infanta in a jeepney with her mother and eight other passengers when Typhoon Winnie hit the coast...
...trees, so they no longer function as shield or sponge. Instead, they have become powerful delivery systems of floodwater and mud. When Typhoon Winnie hit the coast last Monday, said one resident: "I saw this house being swept away in its entirety, and cars, vans and jeeps were all washed away." By the time Typhoon Nanmadol, which hit land late Thursday, had moved away from the coast, at least 640 people were confirmed dead and nearly 400 were missing. Rescue efforts were made almost impossible by blocked roads, washed-out bridges and the storms that succeeded Winnie. Soldiers slogged through...