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...controlled by Murdoch himself, who is an American citizen.) Just how high the stakes are in the battle was made clear by the jugular quality of Murdoch's response. Denying that his network violates the foreign-ownership rules, he fired back with charges that General Electric, NBC's corporate parent, should be stripped of its station licenses, alleging "a pattern of illegal activity." "Two can play at this game," said Murdoch. "If they want a brawl, they can have...
Nearly one-third of all American children are now in families headed by a single parent, the Census Bureau reported today. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest concentration of single-parent families (37.3 percent) is found in quiet Albany, Ga., just 40 miles from former President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains. Overall, the report says, 30 percent of American families and 63 percent of the country's black families are headed by single parents. New York City came in second in the survey, with 35.9 percent of children in single-parent homes...
There's new evidence that "parental control" button on the America Online and Prodigy dial-up services may more important than some parents thought. The Vienna, Va.-based America Online has announced that the FBI is investigating a "small number of people" who have used the system's E-mail to transmit child pornography, after about a dozen AOL members who received the dirty pictures recently lodged complaints. AOL president Steve Case said that AOL contacted the FBI and terminated the individual accounts as soon as it learned of the abuses.Of special concern is the threat that some users...
...comfort level at all [with this decision]," said Fantini, who added an amendment to the decision which he hopes will increase parent involvement and input in the health center...
...discovery of a fossilized embryo from a carnivorous dinosaur: an oviraptor found in Mongolia. The embryo was lodged in a nest, which also contained bones from other tiny dinos that mother oviraptor might have eaten while watching over her sharp- toothed darlings. Apparently even prehistoric monsters knew how to parent...