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By charging callers up to $50 for the chance to talk dirty, telephone sex services have become a $2.4 billion business. The Federal Communications Commission has gone after them with a regulation banning interstate telephone services that are obscene or indecent. Porn operators challenged the ruling, and last week federal...
The nascent union cause scored a victory last week when legislators in Suffolk County, N.Y., enacted the first law in the U.S. to regulate VDT use in the workplace. The ordinance applies to businesses that operate more than 20 VDTs and mandates a 15-minute break every three hours for...
Is Antarctica a frozen trove of natural resources? Scientists first saw evidence 15 years ago that there might be oil beneath the area's coastal waters, and some geologists believe any such deposits could be the world's last untapped "elephants," as huge fields are called. Yet no provision existed...
The great promise of legalization, say its advocates, is that it would rip this cancer out of the cities. If drugs were legal, the Government could regulate their sale and set a low price. Addicts could get a fix without stealing, and a lack of profit would dismantle the booming...
Critics charge that cable is getting a number of other unfair breaks. Since the Cable Communications Policy Act was enacted in 1984, most local communities can no longer regulate the rates cable systems charge subscribers. With the elimination of the "must carry" rule (struck down as unconstitutional by a federal...