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    Wednesday's Art Notes

    Jul 14, 2010 02:12 PM EST

    ... 11. Photo by Martin Bernetti/ AFP/ Getty Images National Geographic has more photos of the eclipse here. * A New York appeals court threw out the FCC’s indecency rules that limit what can be said and shown on TV, via the Los Angeles Times. * Eleven record labels have filed a ...

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    News Wrap: BP Begins Testing New Oil Cap

    Jul 13, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    ... beyond -- quote -- "fleeting expletives." The rule allowed broadcasters to be fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television. The court said the FCC might be able to craft a policy that doesn't violate the right to free speech. There was news today that drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew ...

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    With Location-Tracking Technology, Cell Users Paying Price of Privacy

    Jun 22, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    SPENCER MICHELS: That's just one of the new uses of cell phones' location technology, which got a big push after 9/11, when carriers were told by the FCC to make sure the location of the phones could be traced. Today, cell phones and smartphones rely on global positioning ...

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    Soccer Cinema's Goal: Bring Game to Rural South Africans

    May 19, 2010 05:08 PM EST

    ... Africans. “More than Just a Game,” for example, depicts the team formed by political prisoners on Robben Island in the 1960s. The lighthearted “Soccer Muti FC” follows a priest in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province who uses ritual medicine to help his team’s players on the field. Other ...

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    Marcia Coyle Answers Your Questions on the Retirement of Justice Stevens

    Apr 13, 2010 05:16 PM EST

    ... well as some very powerful dissents. Among his more controversial majority decisions which I have described on The National Law Journal's Web site are: FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1978) -- upheld the government's power to ban the afternoon radio broadcast of George Carlin's "seven dirty words" monologue, but ...

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    Future of Net Neutrality Debated After Ruling

    Apr 07, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    That is totally unnecessary and totally unwarranted. JEFFREY BROWN: Well, so what are the -- in our last moment here, minute here, what are the options for the FCC? Now, I mentioned they could go to Congress. They could appeal. There's other things they could do on their own. GIGI ...

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    News Wrap: Afghan Troops Launch New Offensive

    Apr 06, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    ... to government regulation of the Internet today. It said the Federal Communications Commission cannot require broadband service providers to treat all Internet traffic equally. The FCC is working on Net neutrality rules to prevent phone and cable companies from favoring some online content with better access. The ruling was a ...

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    Patchwork Nation: Ohio's Broadband Availability vs. Affordability

    Mar 31, 2010 02:19 PM EST

    ... these numbers may simply provoke head scratching: Why bother wiring communities or helping households that can't afford a high-speed connection? The answer, say FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and others, is that the Web has become much more than a luxury; it is "the indispensable infrastructure of the digital ...

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    California Republicans Vying for Chance to Replace Boxer in U.S. Senate

    Mar 23, 2010 10:12 PM EST

    ... California Berkeley business school. In another intriguing Internet ad - obviously designed to create buzz - she portrayed Campbell as a demon sheep with red eyes, -- a "FCINO": a Fiscal Conservative in Name Only. Fiorina says he has favored tax increases; Campbell says he's as fiscally conservative as anyone, and has ...

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    On Monday's NewsHour...

    Mar 15, 2010 09:52 PM EST

    ... Federal Communications Commission launches new initiatives aimed at encouraging companies to expand high-speed and wireless coverage across the country. Julius Genachowski, chairman of the FCC, joins him to discuss how the new proposals will accelerate access to broadband. All that, plus the rest of the day's news as ...