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Danger Lurks for Kids in Internet Chat Rooms
Internet predators can find their way to your kids even on sites you least expect, NBC 4 New York has found.
www.nbcnewyork.com
Teens: Connecting online increasingly face-to-face
Teenagers today are connected via the Internet. As well as chat rooms and social networks, they are very comfortable using video to communicate and entertain, according to new research from Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
www.bizreport.com
McDonough calls for 'solutions summit' on downtown crime
Activists denounce state delegate for 'black youth mobs' comment Activists plan City Hall rally later today denouncing delegate
baltimore.feedsportal.com
Wander the streets of Stockholm
STOCKHOLM is at the forefront of European design, style and fashion, writes Oliver Berry during a culture-filled trip to Sweden.
www.news.com.au
Dubai Police Shut Down 15 Facebook And Twitter Accounts Involved In Defamation And Abuse
Dubai police reportedly shut down 15 Facebook and Twitter accounts whose users were reportedly involved in defamation and abuse cases. While a majority of the accounts were disengaged during the first three months of the year, three were blocked within the past week.
www.huffingtonpost.com
Right-wing sexual pathos
Imagine a high school teacher having to separate a smooching pair outside the classroom door to protect herself from being sued for condoning "gateway sexual activity." Envision a sex education class where the mention of homosexuality is forbidden by law and discussion of contraception, or even puberty, is deemed unnecessary. That's the world that would be created by a recent raft of abstinence ...
www.salon.com
Portland high schools take byte out of laptop use at home
District adding filtering software to block social networking, video streaming sites.
www.pressherald.com
Portland school district to beef up online filters
PORTLAND -- Over the next two weeks, Portland's school district will install filtering software on laptops issued to high school students, in order to block access to pornography, social networking sites and video streaming sites when the laptops are at home.
www.kjonline.com
The prudes are winning
The explosion of government-funded abstinence-only education, extreme assaults on reproductive rights, crackdowns on "indecency" and "obscenity": This is but a small sampling of what spurred sex therapist Marty Klein to publish "America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty" in 2006, midway through George W. Bush's second term. Six years later, under a Democratic presidency, many of ...
www.salon.com
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