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...social-networking sites are hoping to avoid such an outcome, in part by urging parents to be more proactive and users to do more self-policing. "That's the real story here," says John Hiler, CEO of Xanga, whose 27 million users often report questionable content. "There are a lot of skeptics who say things like 'Youth can't participate in self-policing.' I think the jury is still out on that." In the end, they may be their own best defense...
...Despite the isolationist pressures of the interwar years, the U.S. would never be able, or willing, to abandon its pivotal role. The country's later trajectory would have made T.R. feel justified, and proud. He had always been convinced that it was impossible for the U.S. to avoid becoming the greatest world power of the 20th century; the only choice was whether it would do so well or poorly. And the trick was to turn the theory of Mahan's principles about sea power into effective practice, for the furtherance of American interests and values. No U.S. President did that...
...stores in the Carolinas and Georgia. With gas at $3 per gal., Spinks hands credit-card companies about 7¢ per gal.--half of what he makes before paying employees and spending on equipment. So he has joined station owners in Tennessee, Minnesota, New York and elsewhere in trying to avoid credit fees altogether by enticing people to pay with cash. The break is normally 3¢ or 4¢ per gal.--enough, they hope, to get customers to whip out the greenbacks...
Hooray for Krauthammer! I grew up with a mother who didn't speak English. Bilingual government services allow parents to avoid learning it. But it is devastating when children are forced to be the family's interpreters. Try having to miss class because you have to interpret for your mother at her gynecologist's. Let's make it hard to function in our society without knowing English, and keep children in school, where they belong...
...watch, America became a great world power. "There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no," he said in 1898. "We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world ... Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny...