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Teen-agers who watch more than an hour of television a day are much more likely to become violent than the few teens who watches less, according to a study led by Jeffrey Johnson of Columbia University. His team found that both men and women are affected by violent programs on television, but teen-aged boys are especially at risk.

?We saw the jump was between less than one hour and more than one hour a day. There was a four-fold increase,? Johnson says. ?Parents should try not to let children watch more than one hour a day on the average.?
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George Walker Bush, the 43rd President of the United States has announced his conversion to Islam and taken the Islamic name Tariq Ali. ?I?ve gotten to know many members of the Islamic community recently,? Bush explained, ?and I just thought I?d give it a try. We need to be more ecumenical in our approach.?

Mr. Bush has also stated that his wife and daughters have entered ?full purdah.? Press inquiries revealed that the Bush sisters have voluntarily confined themselves to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Seraglio in Austin. Their Secret Service protection has been withdrawn ?because it will no longer be necessary. The SAEs will keep the girls under close observation at all times,? according to security personnel.
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Peter Larson of the Black Hills Institute of GeologicalResearch in Hill City, South Dakota, whose group first found ?Sue,? the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton yet discovered, has announced that she could not have survived into old age without “complex social behaviour such as spousal care.”

?Sue? had suffered fractures to the right and left rib cages due to traumatic body blows. She had jaw infections, and healed arm and leg infections. Bony growths on her vertebra revealed that she also had back trouble.
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A massive and unusually abrupt rise in the sea level that occurred about 14,200 years ago was caused by the partial collapse of ice sheets in Antarctica, a new study has shown. In less than 500 years at the end of the last Ice Age, this event caused the Earth’s sea level to rise about 70 feet. That?s about four times faster than sea levels were rising most of the time during this period, and at least 20 times faster than the sea level is currently rising.
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