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...even movies have rating systems. When I was a child, it was pretty hard to sneak into an R-rated movie. But any kid can buy any video game, regardless of the rating it has been given by the industry. Lowenstein says that's the retailers' problem--and the parents'. "The purpose of the rating system is to empower the parents to make an informed choice. If a parent wants to give Junior $50 and say, 'Buy whatever you want. I don't care,' that's not my responsibility...
...haven't we been reminded lately that Junior is everyone's responsibility to some extent? As a parent--and a rabid First Amendment advocate--I can't see what harm it would do to make it harder for Junior to get the bloodier stuff. That said, though, Grossman's child-zombie scenario sounds too far-fetched. "We can't make social policy based on the statistical aberrations of a handful of abnormal kids," observes Henry Jenkins, director of comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jenkins, who co-edited a book, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat, that examines...
...surrogate cows. Mammary cells were also used to produce Dolly, but they were scraped from the udder of an adult sheep. The Japanese scientists believe their kinder, gentler technique will make it easier to clone high-milk-yielding "supercows" by reducing the risk of bacterial infection in valuable parent animals...
Last Sunday, as my husband and I grieved with the people of Littleton, a parent of one of the victims said to him, "You have got to tell me that these children did not die in vain. We've got to make changes. Promise me that you will." Our country needs to make this promise in every house, on every street, in every community. And then we need to keep...
...convinced that most video and computer games were a waste. And besides, why wasn't he reading? As I grew more shrill, my son grew more sullen. I was rejecting something he loved. And he recognized my prejudice as uninformed. I was also violating a basic rule of parenting: take an interest in what your kid is doing--especially when his tastes diverge from yours. Every parent in America got a refresher course on that rule April...