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From Yahoo News : Rupe's packing bags 04/06/2004 Meredith Amdur, STAFF Almost 20 years after becoming a U.S. citizen, Rupert Murdoch announced plans Tuesday to transfer News Corp. from Adelaide to Gotham, making the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites) the global conglom's primary fiscal residence.   Far from any deep-seated sentimental or cultural reasons, it is Wall Street's seductive charms that likely inspired the company to weigh anchor from its Aussie roots. Relocating holds out the prospect of a much wider customer base for News Corp.'s shares, access to cheaper capital and ultimately a more compelling valuation...

Posted on Tue, Mar. 09, 2004 Judge Rules 'Girls Gone Wild' Is Not PornAssociated Press PANAMA CITY, Fla. - A videotape of an underage girl exposing her breasts is not child pornography, a judge decided Tuesday in a criminal case against the producer of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series.Joe Francis, 30, and several of his employees were arrested at Panama City Beach while filming during spring break last April. Bay County sheriff's deputies charged Francis with racketeering related to prostitution and other crimes, based largely on videotapes of girls under 18.Many of the 43 counts he faces hinge on...

SWEET SIXTEEN / ***1/2 (R) June 13, 2003 BY ROGER EBERT "Sweet Sixteen" is set in Scotland and acted in a local accent so tricky it needs to be subtitled. Yet it could take place in any American city, in this time of heartless cuts in social services and the abandonment of the poor. I saw the movie at about the same time our lawmakers eliminated the pitiful $400 per child tax credit, while transferring billions from the working class to the richest 1 percent. Such shameless greed makes me angry, and a movie like "Sweet Sixteen" provides a social...

Brace yourself. The "Guidelines for Comprehensive Sex Education" include for ages 12 to 15 that "a few boys engage in a very dangerous and sometimes fatal form of masturbation that involves limiting their air supply," and for ages 9 to 12 that "homosexual love relationships can be as satisfying as heterosexual relationships," and for ages 5 to 8 that "touching or rubbing one's own genitals to feel good is called masturbation." These "guidelines" represent the foundation of comprehensive sex education (also known as "abstinence-first" or abstinence-plus-condoms sex education) developed by the Sexuality Information and Educational Council of the United States...