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...such attempt. Modeled on its London namesake, it was established in 2000 in a park in downtown Singapore. When I visited last year, the instructions on a bulletin board listed the following rules: You must register at the police station around the corner; you must fill in forms and wait for permission; if it is granted, your speech will be recorded and can be held against you in any defamation or other trials. You are not allowed to raise any issues of religion or race - and you must not insult anyone in authority. I asked a police officer...
...bloggers with firms willing to compensate them for plugs on their blogs, has set up a similar service for the Twittersphere. At a site called Sponsored Tweets, Twitter users can sign in, set the price they want companies to pay them for tweeting an ad on their behalf and wait for the offers to come in. Jocelyn French, the mother of a 2-year-old boy and 1-year-old girl, has tweeted for a parenting website, a college-information site and Kmart, among others, at $1 a pop. "I figure, hey, why not get paid at the same time...
...eating of sweets represents a lack of discipline in childhood that translates to poor impulse control in adulthood. Moore is leaning toward the latter. It's possible that children who are given sweets too frequently never learn how to delay gratification - that is, they never develop enough patience to wait for things they want, leading to impulsivity in adulthood. It's also possible that children who are poorly behaved from the start tend to get more candy. (Read "Why Media Could Be Bad for Your Child's Health...
...Think of every high school cross-country teenager in Alaska who has to wait until December for the October snow,” said Timothy L.H. Treuer ’10, an Alaska native who was asked to speak at the event...
Sue’s barely in this episode. We’re sure she’s busy cooking something devilish up – can’t wait to find out what. Best Only line of the week: “I was aroused, then furious...