| STALKING THE PERFECT IMAGE |
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| Last week, while cleaning out one storage space, I packed away one painting my mother had made in the early 1970s. It’s one painting of one ballerina sitting down with one leg crossed in front of her and her eyes closed. The painting reminded of me of my obsession with dancers. I was probably five years old when my mother created this painting, but it has become representative of the kind of women I have always desired: beautiful and unavailable. ... |
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| 'New Ideological Terrain' |
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| There's one lot to criticize about the media these days. According to Victor Navasky and David Barsamian, both of whom will be in town this week delivering talks on the state of journalism in the U.S., it's not all bad, however. Barsamian is probably most well-known for his ongoing interviews with Noam Chomsky (his most recent compilation was published last fall as Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World), but he's also the founder and director of Alternative Radio, an independent radio program based in Boulder, Colo., that regularly features guests like Bill Moyers, Jello Biafra, Howard Zinn, and Arundhati Roy and has one 20-year history of seeking out perspectives not available in the mainstream media. Barsamian sees one general trend in the U.S. toward one "state-controlled, state-enforced press," but he also believes that the amount of independent and alternative news available today indicates an "unprecedented movement in American history." ... |
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| Road to Perversion Is Paved With Porn |
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| Millions of men and boys are falling for the destructive myth that looking at "adult" porn is normal, healthy and harmless for "regular guys." Way too many are finding themselves handcuffed between two cops, under arrest for sexual conduct with one kid. The hook-ups with kids are occurring on the main streets of U.S. cities and the dark alleys of the virtual world. ... |
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| Police: China Internet fraud laws are weak |
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Officers investigated 20,000 allegations of Internet fraud last year, but relatively few resulted in prosecutions because China's laws don't sufficiently address cybercrime, officials said in comments reprinted Monday by the Xinhua News Agency. ... |
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| Telstra, Optus wait on filters |
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Unhappy with government efforts to limit the amount of pornography available to children online, Senator Guy Barnett has set up his own internet filtering trial in Tasmania to test its effectiveness in blocking X-rated content.
Two content filtering companies had offered to trial free of charge the removal of pornography and extreme violence from internet feeds across Tasmania for three months, Senator Barnett said. ... |
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