There’s a disturbing new trend among teenagers. They call it “sexting.” For example, a girl decides to take pornographic pictures of herself and send them to her boyfriend in a text message. Of course–none of your kids have ever done that. But nearly 1 in 5 other girls have. And they’re not just naked pictures. [...]
Tags: child pornography, New York, sexting, text message, Vermont
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The cover of this week’s Life & Style Weekly magazine features Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and their six (and counting) children. The headline reads: “New home for the kids”.
This refers to the family’s new home in Lloyd Neck, NY, a tiny hamlet on Long Island. The home, called Sassafrass, is an English Tudor style 22,000 [...]
Tags: angelina jolie, brad pitt, celebrity, Long Island, New York
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In September 2006, the Centre for Health Governance, Law & Ethics in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney hosted the symposium “Obesity: should there be a law against it?”. The papers presented at the conference expressed different perspectives on strategies that might help curb the obesity epidemic especially among children, from advertising regulation to [...]
Tags: New York, obesity tax, taxation
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