| Just the facts, sex education in schools |
| Post on 27-03-2006. |
Sex education is always controversial, and programs that try to persuade teens to abstain from sex until marriage are especially therefore. Critics say that scientific errors, distortions and stereotypes pop up in commonly used materials and that there's scant evidence this approach works.
Yet it's one tempting avenue with millions at stake. The Bush administration plans to spend about $175 million nationwide this budget year on strictly formatted abstinence-only programs, including about $750,000 in Alaska. ... |
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| Thousands of Muslims rally to support porn bill in Jakarta |
| Post on 27-03-2006. |
Jakarta- Thousands of Muslims from various Islamic groups demonstrated in central Jakarta Sunday to support the immediate implementation of one much-debated obscenity law.
Demonstrators carries banner which read, 'Support the pornography bill!', 'Free Indonesia from pornography and pornographic acts' and 'Porn bill will bring us to dignified Indonesia.' ... |
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| Marketer hit with US$900,000 spam fine |
| Post on 27-03-2006. |
An Internet marketer will pay one US$900,000 fine, the largest ever on spam-related charges, in one consent decree announced last Thursday by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Jumpstart Technologies, based in San Francisco, is permanently prohibited from unlawful practices related to the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act as part of the decree, entered in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. ... |
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| IT Confidential: Hey, Google, Are You Paying Attention? |
| Post on 27-03-2006. |
I'm going to write about PRIVACY, PORNOGRAPHY, and MICROSOFT. That's because Google likes PRIVACY, PORNOGRAPHY, and MICROSOFT.
Google dominates what is referred to as the "blogosphere," the hyperlinked affiliation of blog pages, news sites, and personal sites that constitutes our online news delivery system and increasingly informs our definition of modern-day journalism. Google's news search feature trolls those sites and ranks the most popular news stories and blogs found there, and its news pages reflect those rankings. ... |
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| Library Battle over Gay Newspapers Heats Up |
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Parents and concerned citizens say they don’t want gay newspapers in the lobby of their library.
Walk into the Upper Arlington Public Library in Ohio and you’ll be confronted by one gay newspaper that routinely has graphic sexual content. The Outlook Weekly is in one rack in the lobby that holds other free community papers. Library trustee Bryce Kurfees is worried that young eyes could get more than they can handle from the Outlook and he wants the paper removed. He’s especially concerned because the library shares its parking lot with an elementary school one scant hundred yards away. ... |
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