Jack Diehl
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News of Note: US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law In a leaked letter sent to Spain’s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment for not passing a SOPA-style file-sharing site blocking law, Spain risked being put on a United States trade blacklist . Inclusion would…
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Can cutesy pet names ruin your sex life?
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News of Note: Sweetie turns sour – NYTimes.com Using a cutesy pet name or baby talk with your partner can cause sex life to dwindle According to self-help authors Maggie Arana and Julienne Davis, “Calling your partner honey is the first step down the slippery slope toward a bland or nonexistent sexual relationship.” And it’s…
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Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, Via Text
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(También en Español) News of Note: Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, via Text – NYTimes.com “While heading to class last year, Stephanie Cisneros, a Denver-area high school junior, was arguing with a friend about ways that sexually transmitted diseasesmight be passed along. Ms. Cisneros knew she could resolve the dispute in class — but not by raising…
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Japan leads the way in sexless love
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News of Note: Japan leads the way in sexless love Why the generational malaise and indifference to sex? Theories abound. The most provocative to me, a Japanese-American and longtime Tokyo resident, is that Japanese women have become stronger socially and economically at the very same time that Japanese men have become more fully absorbed in…
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFpwHe6KjDA” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] News of Note: HIV vaccine developed in Canada approved for human studies A Canadian-developed vaccine to prevent HIV has been given the green light for testing in human clinical trials. The vaccine, developed by researchers at the University of Western Ontario, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to…
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Congress to Resume SOPA Hearings Wednesday
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News of Note: Congress to Resume SOPA Hearings Next Week (This Wednesday) The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will continue its hearing on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on Wednesday, not until after Congress’ holiday break, as originally believed. Late Friday, Representative Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican and committee chairman, scheduled a…
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SOPA would “criminalize” the Internet
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News of Note: Google chairman says online piracy bill would ‘criminalize’ the Internet An online piracy bill in the House [US House of Representatives H.R.3261] would “criminalize linking and the fundamental structure of the Internet itself,” according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt said the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would punish Web firms, including…
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News of Note: Assange: Using iPhone, Gmail, BlackBerry? You’re Screwed! Here is an issue that is certain to affect everyone. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that governments worldwide have been using electronic devices, such as smart-phones and computers, to monitor what people are saying, where they are going and what they are writing. The controversial…
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Porn Sites go .XXX
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You may have heard of the new .xxx domain names being created for porn sites. They finally went live this Tuesday and the controversy hasn’t stopped. “By applying for a .xxx site, webmasters, adult performers, studios, and others become part of a “sponsored community,” agreeing to operate legally and within agreed-upon business standards. Each .xxx…
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Prosecuting Wall Street
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News of Note: 60 Minutes: Prosecuting Wall Street ” Two whistleblowers offer a rare window into the root causes of the subprime mortgage meltdown. Eileen Foster, a former senior executive at Countrywide Financial, and Richard Bowen, a former vice president at Citigroup, tell Steve Kroft the companies ignored their repeated warnings about defective, even fraudulent…