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- 6521: Media Controls
- ... annual revenue. CBS was soon to follow suit when it merged with Westinghouse. And NBC is owned by General Electric. These mergers are monopolies, and they compromise the integrity of the news they report. The American media is the most free in the world. The First Amendment guarantees that newspapers and television stations may print what they choose, yet they choose to print substandard information. Profit margin, big business practices, ratings ...
- 6522: Milestones In Communication Mi
- ... the North Church in Boston in 1775 to indicate the route the British were taking. The lanterns were the signal for Paul Revere to begin his famous midnight ride, perhaps the most famous communication in American history, immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem. In actuality, Revere made two rides, on April 16 (to warn the patriots to move their military supplies) and again on April 18 (to tell the people ...
- 6523: Rape
- ... continue hurting other people and getting away with a terrible crime that no one should have to go through. The high incidence of rape makes it a devistating fact of life for literally millions of American women. Even women who are not direct victims of rape are affected. When a rape takes place, women live with fear of an attack and the restriction of freedom such fear brings. According to statistics ...
- 6524: Why the Legal Driving Age Should be Raised
- ... plowed into a tree at 85 mph. "I had no idea he'd ever do anything like that." After all, John was in the National Honor Society and was listed in Who's Who Among American High School Students. "When it happened, I was across the street at my neighbor's," Sandra says. I heard the siren's very clearly but didn't think anything of it until my husband ran ...
- 6525: The Death Penalty
- ... the US," Reuters News Agency, 1998-APR-3 http://alicewolf.org/death-penalty.htm http://www.essential.org/dpic/deter.html Isaac Ehrlich, "The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment A Matter of Life and Death" American Economic Review, June 1975
- 6526: Mergers
- ... by leading merger consultants. 1. AOL and Netscape 2. Excite 3. Disney and Infoseek 4. BNP and Bank Paribas 5. Tyco International Ltd. and Binge/Purge 6. Deutsche Telecom and Trouble on the Line 7. American Home Products and Warner Lambert 8. Aetna US Healthcare 9. AutoNation 10. Bank One These companies all failed for many reasons. The Disney and Infoseek merger failed for the simple fact that the managers of ...
- 6527: Is Sex Eroding Moral Values?
- ... taught to the youngest people," said G. K. Chesterton in 1910. If that guarded approach applies anywhere, moral education would seem to be the place. "The Day America Told the Truth," a 1990 survey of American beliefs and values, contains this scene from a California high school: "It's Friday afternoon and the students are leaving a class in 'social living.' The teacher's parting words are, 'have a great weekend ...
- 6528: Money And Information
- ... formal sphere of secrecy" or the integrity of the concerned computer systems is violated. The most severe case of sophisticated "hacking" involved a group of German teenagers. They had managed to get access to various American computer systems and then sold the knowledge obtained in their data-journeys to the former Soviet secret service KGB. The case was discovered because one of the hackers sought help at the author's former ...
- 6529: National Wildlife Federation
- The National Wildlife Federation was founded in 1936 by editorial cartoonist J.N. Darling. It was founded when President D. Roosevelt convened the first North American Wildlife Conference to stimulate public interest in America's land, water and natural resources. After that the General Wildlife Federation (later changed to the National Wildlife Federation) was founded. It is the nation's largest ...
- 6530: Legalizing Same Sex Marriages
- ... sex marriage is one of the most significant issues in America today. Presently, it is one of the most controversial political questions facing lawmakers, as well as one of the most provocative issues emerging before American courts. In the United States current system, efforts to legalize same-sex partnerships have had limited success. In 1994, the California legislature passed a domestic partnership bill that provided official state registration of same ...
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