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...were possible to come to a national consensus about what is obscene and damaging to our children, the cost of preventing it on the immense and open public forum that is the internet would still be prohibitive. And considering the vague nature of indecency and its even more vague effect on youngsters, the price we would pay in freedom for supposedly protecting our children is simply unacceptably high. One alternate solution might be a software equivalent of the proposed V-chip, which will allow parents to block violent television programs. For instance, network software such as Netscape might allow parents...
...think students are getting smarter--probably there is objective data to support that--though I doubt that effect can explain the entire shift in grades," he says...
...Grade inflation is immoral," says Robinson Professor of Music Robert Levine. "It has a pretentious effect on students, for the outside world now devalues transcripts...
...remove the need for Medicaid savings this deep by dropping their tax cuts or putting back into the negotiations the half of the budget they've taken off the table: defense and Social Security and other entitlements for the well off. The alternative is to fix Medicaid later. In effect, that's Plan B for antsy Republican Governors, who pray that if the President doesn't save them by scaling back the cuts, there will be time to revisit the issues before disaster strikes. Maybe they'll get lucky. But judging by experiences in Arizona and Tennessee, two states that...
Arizona's big surprise is the effect the program has had on the state's doctors. The reimbursement rates are kept high enough so that they actually want to join. And health-care groups are raking in so much money--they took in $54 million in net profits last year, a 25% increase from 1993--that experts suggest that members of Arizona's "notch" population--the uninsured working poor--be added to the plan as well. But that is an unlikely outcome now. Even states like Arizona, which have created a lean Medicaid machine with very tight eligibility requirements...