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...retaining wall from an adjoining house, hand grenades were thrown at the embassy guardhouse and about 25 rebels belonging to a group known as the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement stormed into the compound. As the insurgents engaged police in a ferocious gun battle, everyone--Peruvian ministers, blue-chip business tycoons, assembled diplomats and their wives--dropped to the ground. "Don't lift your head," the rebels barked, "or it'll be shot...
Here is what nobody has bothered to mention in all the talk about how V chips are going to protect our kids from the smut and violence on television: in most American households, the only people who understand how to program modern electronic devices are the children. So the V chip will presumably have to be managed by the very people it is meant to control...
...summit last February and vowed to take action. They promised to devise a rating system for TV shows that would alert parents to programs containing high levels of violence, sex or rough language. With these ratings as a guide, parents could lock out objectionable shows by using the V chip, a device mandated in this year's Telecommunications Act and scheduled to be installed in new TV sets starting...
...might well include everything from Boy Meets World to a racy episode of Seinfeld. In truth, the system seems motivated less by an urge for simplicity and more by a desire to avoid the red-flag V rating, which would probably scare off many advertisers--and, once the V chip comes into operation, erode the ratings of violent shows. "I think the industry has gone out of its way to develop a rating system that will not tell parents whether there is violence in a program," says Kathryn Montgomery, president of the Center for Media Education...
...been working for the past two summers at home in the biggest trauma center in the state, so I guess I was kind of spoiled," says Alden J. "Chip" MacDonald...