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Having a child destroys your immune system to horror, real or imagined. Before the blessed event, you could laugh off The Exorcist, The Omen, or any of a thousand gory shockers with some wide-eyed tyke as either the prey or the spawn of Beelzebub. Afterwards, you can't even see the baby carriage teetering on the steps in Potemkin without quaking like a Brownie in a chainsaw maze. Onscreen and off-, the world is suddenly an infinite box of broken glass; every glistening point aims at your little one — helpless, innocent, and entirely dependent upon you to shield him. .
Pumping up your brain with legal drugs
Whatever company comes out with the first memory pill is going to put Viagra to shame," said Paul Root Wolpe, a University of Pennsylvania bioethicist. Unlike the anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and blood-oxygen boosters that plague athletic competitions, the brain drugs haven't provoked similar outrage. People who take them say the drugs aren't giving them an unfair advantage but merely allow them to make the most of their hard-earned skills. In the real world, there are no rules to prevent overachievers from using legally prescribed drugs to operate at peak mental performance. What patient wouldn't want their surgeon to be completely focused during a life-or-death procedure? "If there were drugs for investment bankers, journalists, teachers and scientists that made them more successful, they would use them too," said Charles E.
Radio Talk
When Al Gore proposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Advertising Age (10/13/03): "The problem with being associated as liberal is that they wouldn't be going in a direction that advertisers are really interested in…. If you go out and say that you are a liberal network, you are cutting your potential audience, and certainly your potential advertising pool, right off the bat." (See Extra!, 11-12/03: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2595) FAIR's call to the ABC contact person listed on the memo, to ask if similar "blackout" lists exist for other shows, including conservative-leaning programs, has not been returned. FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.
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