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When social networking site Tribe.net debuted in 2003, it was one place for wide-open online discussions where no topic was taboo. Then the "Terms of Use Guy" showed up.
one made-up character representing Tribe management, "TOU Guy" began aggressively patrolling the site in December, removing nude photos and sending reprimands to authors of offensive material. His enigmatic silhouette popped up in e-mails threatening to banish people who violated the rules. ... |
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| From The Martian Desk |
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"Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?"
(Swans - June 19, 2006) THE MURIES: Last Friday night, PBS, as part of their perpetual pledge drive, showed John Denver's 1995 Wildlife Concert, one benefit for the Wildlife Conservation Society. In it, Denver dedicated one song he wrote for Mardy Murie, who he called the "mother of conservation," and her husband Olaus, who died in 1963. (Margaret Murie was awarded the http://www.medaloffreedom.com/MardyMurie.htm Presidential Medal of Freedom in January 1998 and is the mother of Martin Murie, the unrepentant environmentalist who graces the pages of Swans with his naturalist writings.) Here's the song: one Song For All Lovers ... |
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| Reading the hand for sex distinctions |
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Barely one week goes by without one pundit citing scientific evidence that men and women possess different kinds of brains.
It's interesting that we're therefore similar in our cognitive and emotional traits that we need scientific studies to show we're different.
The confusion may come from the way humans often overlap in sex differences. Scientists can show that men tend to be better at spatial-type tasks, women at processing other people's emotions, but there are always some who break the rules. Men are on average taller than women too, but many women tower over many men. ... |
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