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Out of this world

by Roy Maynard

Cover Story | Two sure-fire hits are shocking by today's abysmal television standards-but each for different reasons

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/out_of_this_world]

Don't look now

by Gene Edward Veith

Cover Story | When executives unveiled their television ratings system in 1997, WORLD predicted that far from making TV more family-friendly, it would worsen an already bad TV lineup. As happened with movie ratings, warning labels, we believed, would only provide a cover-and even an advertisement-for ever raunchier programming (see WORLD, Feb. 8, 1997). Now new studies by the Parents Television Council bear out this prediction: Sex, profanity, violence, and other kinds of immorality have soared and invaded even the "family hour" that was supposed to be a safe haven for children's viewing. Don't look now: A new season is upon us.

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/don_t_look_now]

In this issue: "The fall(en) TV season," Sept. 18, 1999

Features

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Burned out

by Roy Maynard

National |  Burning Man art party turns out to be more meaningless than offensive, irrelevant than irreverent

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/burned_out]

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Native tongue lashing

by Chris Stamper

National |  Watch your language on the Net, watch your neighbor via the Net, and who's watching you on the Net?

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/native_tongue_lashing]

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Gridiron greatness

National |  Perseverance pays off for three college stars

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/gridiron_greatness]

Dispatches

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Quotables

Maybe somebody's conscience was bothering them and they decided to turn it in. Detective Donald Pasquarelli on the mysterious return-inside a black plastic…

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/quotables_1]

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News & Reviews

by The Editors

Hillary plays both sides of clemency controversy, as nationalists go free The terrorist two-step About a dozen radical Puerto Rican terrorists are on their…

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/news_reviews_1]

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Music: Duke and Hoagy at 100

Music |  Enjoy listening to the leadership secrets of Duke Ellington, sacred musician

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/music_duke_and_hoagy_at_100]

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Planned obsolescence

by Chris Stamper

Culture |  Beanie Babies, Campbell Soup cans, and computers pass away as the grass

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/planned_obsolescence]

Voices

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Mailbag

Life imitates Huxley It was a good decision to include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in your list of top 20th-century books. The nightmare utopia of that…

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/mailbag_1]

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Practice hospitality

by Margie Haack

Let's take our cues from Badger, not Martha Stewart

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/practice_hospitality]

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A rip, not a fray

by Joel Belz

And the rip is right down the middle of our social fabric

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/a_rip_not_a_fray]

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God's mercy

by Marvin Olasky

How else have we survived 50 years of potential nuclear war?

[http://www.worldmag.com/1999/09/god_s_mercy]

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