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...transgressive art was the Legion of Decency list posted in our local church. The Legion was a Catholic organization that rated movies for content and tone, from "A" for unobjectionable (good) to "C" for condemned (eeeeevil). For me, the "C" rating was a movie's most persuasive marketing tool. After Mass each Sunday I would check out the list, and I can say without irony that it stoked my teenage interest in foreign films, from Ingmar Bergman's "Sawdust and Tinsel" (known in the U.S. as "The Naked Night") to Luis Bu?uel's "Los Olvidados." I would sneak...
...other camp are those who argue that Napster is nothing more than a tool for the wholesale infringement of intellectual property rights. Artists like Metallica and Dr. Dre argue that users will not be willing to purchase music if they can get it for free on the Internet, and artists will therefore not be properly rewarded for their effort...
Parents must show a child how to perform the chore they want done (be clear, but don't elaborate too much) and give a reasonable deadline for the job. Then the parent should leave the area (unless a child is using a mower or similar tool for the first time). Do not supervise too closely--it is as nerve-racking for them as it would be for you if your boss hung out in your office...
...Everyone wins," says Mary Anne Ward, president of Schools at Work, a work-site-school consulting firm. "Companies can set up a school for as little as a few thousand dollars and then use the school as a recruiting and retention tool. Overcrowded school districts don't have to find extra space for their kids. And parents get to be near their children and be more involved in the school...
...still intact. A special MRI shows that asymptomatic folks who are at genetic risk for Alzheimer's work harder to answer easy mental tests than other people. How can doctors tell? On the MRI, the area of the brain responsible for thinking lights up more than other areas. The tool may one day be used as a kind of mental stress test to detect Alzheimer's earlier, much as a treadmill tests for heart disease today...