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There may even be hope for the estimated 200,000 Americans paralyzed by old injuries. By studying how nerve cells grow during embryonic development, scientists believe that they will one day learn to overcome the spinal cord's stubborn unwillingness to repair even a 1-cm gap in its length...
Rather, such efforts frequently inflame rather than improve race relations. Many a university has attempted to micromanage the lives and beliefs of its students. And many a university has wished it hadn't. From Stanford to U. Mass. Amherst, the result is always the same: the more we regulate a...
The only check that the FCC enacted to regulate broadcasters was a space on the FCC license renewal form for broadcasters to describe their efforts to comply with the voluntary guidelines. In 1979 an FCC task force issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that suggested that broadcasters were complying with...
When forced to reconcile its new position with past policies before a U.S. Court of Appeals, the FCC claimed that it had never set any firm guidelines and that broadcasters should regulate themselves.
The thinking behind this sort of deregulation was that "the market" would regulate television ads and programming. The idea was that if there were too many commercials or too many low-quality shows, the viewers would complain and effect a change.