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...make "indecent" material available to minors. What about individuals or companies that deliberately post such material in a way that can reasonably be expected to reach children? Even if it wasn't apparent that it will be almost impossible to differentiate between intentional and unintentional postings on the dynamic medium that is the Internet, punishing deliberate posters is a dubious matter. To begin with, the definition of indecency currently in place is way too open ended and is arguably unconstitutional. There is simply too much valid discourse that can be rendered technically obscene by this bill. For example, since...
...courts have not yet ruled on whether the Internet is a print medium like a newspaper, protected from government censorship, or a broadcast medium like TV, whose content is closely regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Thoughtful members of Congress, led by Washington Republican Rick White, had sought to clarify the matter. A compromise proposed by White would have ruled out fcc oversight of the Internet; it also would have replaced the problematic word indecency with the phrase harmful to minors, a more narrowly defined standard that keeps magazines like Penthouse shrink-wrapped in convenience stores...
Most problems have come at small- and medium-size firms that were tempted to raid 401(k) accounts to meet financial crises. Companies have 90 days from the time they withhold the funds from paychecks until they are supposed to hand the money over to investment managers. But some bosses apparently view the extended grace period as an invitation to dip into the accounts for their own purposes. "There is no end to the creativity of the human mind," says Brian Schaefer, president of 401(k) Ventures, a consulting firm in Palo Alto, California. "This is a hard time...
Evolving attitudes towards the medium of film have resulted in artists whose creativity includes new way of using celluloid Of these artists. Stan Brakhage (whose work is currently in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York) is the fore runner. Brakhage hand-paints 8, 16, 35 mm and Imax film stock sometimes using a technique which lets him paste translucent objects onto the film. Brakhage seems to tap into a deep level of emotion by projecting his tiny, beautiful swirls of color onto the large screen. The breathless tension of these intimate films reveals the influence...
Participants then studied drawings of objects--including pictures of a boat, telephone, bell, and clock--and learned to visualize them, after which they were shown boxes of three different sizes to standardize the notions of small, medium and large...