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Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon, violated the commercial time-limits regulation roughly 600 times and breached the product placement rule on 145 occasions. Disney, via its ABC Family Channel subsidiary, faced similar, if less widespread, charges. But while both corporations offered predictable excuses for their transgressions—citing inadvertent errors resulting from computer and human lapses—the current culture of excessive commercialization is frightening, and the FCC was right to directly censure the companies...
According to a national survey by the Institute of Politics released last week, 42 percent of students plan to vote via absentee ballot...
...long foreseen, but when it finally happened, it still seemed spooky. The FDA last week approved an implantable microchip for medical uses. When activated by a handheld scanner, the tiny VeriChip emits, via radio signal, an ID number that can be linked to a patient's medical records. Critics see Big Brother. Enthusiasts say ambulance crews and ER doctors will be able to access such critical data as medications and drug allergies, even if a patient is unconscious. Future versions may have sensors to read vital signs like pulse, temperature and blood sugar...
...tends to express principles that leave the details open to interpretation. He communicates them before and after sunset prayers, when he addresses his followers' 1,001 questions on proper religious observance, social behavior and personal conduct. He engages in a busy written dialogue with his followers by letter and via the Internet. Not long ago, Rifat al-Amin, a university student in Baghdad, wrote the ayatullah to ask whether protests by his followers should take place in narrow streets where they would block traffic. The marja replied that demonstrations should take place in wide squares instead. Al-Amin also asked...
Friend in Need After a struggle that looked more like mud-wrestling than statesmanship, the British government announced it would send 850 soldiers from its zone in southern Iraq to the American zone near Baghdad. When news of the redeployment first broke - via leaks by family members who were outraged that the soldiers wouldn't be home for Christmas as planned - Prime Minister Tony Blair had an ugly fight on his hands. Only 40% of British people now think the Iraq war was justified, and to many M.P.s, including previously loyal members of Blair's Labour Party, this additional accommodation...