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Ironically, the Supreme Court struck down the porn part of the law soon after it was passed. But the exemption for Internet publishers stands. The U.S. Supreme Court has shown zero interest in entertaining a challenge to it, Goldman says, much less overturning it. Goldman believes Congress made a good decision. "It's very hard to put online service providers in the role of judge," he says. "If we asked online service providers to do this, they'd take the path of least resistance. They'd take the content down. And if they did that, we would see a chilling extinction of negative feedback about products and services in the marketplace." And so Web publishers today have the freedom to publish real, uncensored customer reports and, while they're at it, to publish false information.
Food safety tips for globe-trotters
Sampling the foods of the world is one of the most satisfying aspects of travel. But while your palate may be game, your stomach isn't always up to the challenge. It's important to find a middle ground between sampling local cuisines and treating your belly well. For starters, understand that American food isn't necessarily "safer" than food abroad; it's often simply that your innards are accustomed to it. One important difference is the use of more "natural" fertilizers abroad, which can carry bacteria that could cause intestinal distress — also known as traveler's tummy. However, there are times when you may face special risks while traveling abroad. Outbreaks that have made headlines in recent years include avian influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease").
New Latah Bistro Classes
Join Heather Black-DuPree, owner of Latah Bistro, for the Tastes of Tuscany cooking classes every Sunday from 12 to 3 p.m. The classes feature recipes from Siena, Italy where Black-Dupree recently took classes herself. "Heather's style incorporated a passion for food with stories, trivia and traditional cooking knowledge," the Duprees said in a news release. Future classes will include Latah Bistro Chef David Blaine and other chefs from the restaurant. The restaurant is closed so students use the kitchen and dining room for the private classes. When they arrive they'll meet other students, put on an apron and then start cooking. Recipes will be provided along with wine to sip and appetizers. At the end of the night, the group sits down to the three-course meal they made that night.
Killer of Adrienne Shelly Pleads Guilty
Diego Pillco, an illegal immigrant from Ecuador who was arrested days after Shelly's body was discovered in her Greenwich Village apartment, admitted in a New York courtroom on Thursday that he killed Shelly while trying to rob her. He then hanged her in an attempt make her death appear like a suicide, the Associated Press reports. Pillco said Shelly caught him stealing money from her purse and threatened to call police. He is to be sentenced on March 6, and will receive 25 years in prison, says AP. Shelly, 40, was born Adrienne Levine in Queens, N.Y., and raised on Long Island. At the time of her death, she and her husband, Andy Ostroy, had a 3-year-old daughter, Sophie. Shelly had worked steadily acting in film, theater and television, but later turned to writing and directing and made her feature-film directorial debut with 1997's Sudden Manhattan.
Capitalism's Enemies Within
It's not as if these CEOs weren't compensated in all those years. If you leave your company a shambles -- with losses to be absorbed by lower-level employees, some of whom will be fired, and shareholders -- do you deserve a gold-plated send-off? Still, the more serious problem transcends the high pay itself and goes to the wider consequences for the economy. Wall Street's pay practices perversely encourage extreme risk-taking that can destabilize the economy. Subprime mortgage losses may simply be chapter one. Now there are signs of problems involving securities known as "credit default swaps." Never mind the details. Concentrate on the possible fallout. If banks and investment houses sustain more losses, the nation's credit system will be further wounded and so will the economy.
Gap In Health Rates Between Socioeconomic Classes Unchanged, Study ...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 2, 2008) Over the past century, the United States has witnessed historic advances in public health and medicine that have contributed to improved health and a significant increase in life expectancy for all socioeconomic groups. But despite 100 years of historic advances, University of Minnesota sociologists have found that the health gap between classes has not changed. .
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