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...must take issue with James Poniewozik's apologia for reality-TV programs and his view that they teach morality lessons [TELEVISION, April 23]. Programs like Big Brother and Survivor are not group therapy. Nor do they transmit any morals. They are an exhibition of what happens when contestants allow themselves to be showcased in an artificial environment in which they are likely to form emotional attachments while being required to inflict hurt and humiliation on one another. Rather than ask what message these shows send to their viewers, one should consider what irreparable damage they will, over time, cause...
...Harvard administrators that they would pay for a living wage through a tuition increase. Polls that contain a political message (e.g., a living wage might cost you more) have been termed “push polls” and their use in last fall’s campaigns to transmit falsehoods about candidates has been decried. Legitimate surveys avoid biased and vague items like the plague. Such questions not only produce meaningless results, they bias the answers to the questions that follow them by shaping the meaning respondents attach to them. And in e-mail surveys, respondents...
...attempt to control child pornography in cyberspace, the Canadian government proposed new laws that would make it illegal to access child pornography on the Internet. The Criminal Law Amendment Act would also make it illegal to post such material on a website or transmit it by e-mail. People convicted of transmitting child pornography could face 10-year jail sentences while those caught intentionally accessing porn sites could receive five-year sentences...
...that? Foot-and-mouth is transmitted within herds through direct contact and through the inhalation of the airborne virus. The disease can even be carried several kilometers over land by the wind and much greater distances over water. Movement of infected animals can spread the disease among separate herds. Contaminated vehicles, equipment, farm products and people can transmit the infection too. The virus can survive for long periods of time in certain meats, bone marrow, viscera and nonpasteurised dairy products. It can also travel from country to country via live animals and meat or nonpasturized dairy products from infected countries...
...products, not much. E.U. legislation already requires member states to quarantine and destroy all infected animals and animal products once contamination is discovered. To stop the disease from spreading, E.U. law prohibits movement of all animals, meat, feed, utensils or other products such as wool or milk liable to transmit the disease...