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08/30/2010

Proposal would penalize movies showing actors smoking with an R-rating

If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has its way, any future movie that shows an actor smoking will automatically get an R-rating.

Class discussion: What was the last movie you remember seeing a character lighting up? Do you think it's more or less prelavent today to see characters smoking on screen? Is this a valid way to discourage smoking?

News Video Archive


Proposal would penalize movies showing actors smoking with an R-rating

Lying is protected by the Constitution

Study finds more mental illness among students on college campuses

Internet Addiction in Teens Linked to Depression

Bedbugs Biting Across the Country

Is Lady Gaga behind a dangerous trend?

Chicken or egg? Mystery solved!

Introducing Oscar, the World's First Bionic Cat

Google considering paywall scheme for online newspapers

Should vuvuzela horns be banned at the World Cup?

Stranded teen sailor rescued in turbulent Indian Ocean

Schools Move to Ban Kid Craze Silly Bandz

A 1940s era video on working at a newspaper

First self-replicating species is created in a lab

Facebook gets more heat over privacy issues

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claims time travel is possible

Looking for someone to blame for the BP oil spill

Fighting cancer with fried chicken

Political cartoons that move

Scrabble purists a-n-g-r-y over new version of the classic board game

Study indicates that magnets can paralyze your moral compass

March Madness Over Graduation Rates

Are you ready for 3D TV?

"Take your legs off and play:" Profile of a Paralympian

"Embrace Life" seatbelt video goes viral

Tufts University accepts video applications

Science unwraps the real King Tut

Do fat kids need government help?

Can Fast-Food Diet help you lose weight?

Can you have too many friends?

America's multimedia kids

8-Year-Old Terrorist?

Changing the tools: Merging the digital world with the physical world

Will e-Readers replace books?

Avatar sets a new standard for blockbusters

A new Disney princess debuts

Taking sports concussions seriously

What does Green really mean?

Unfriend -- Word of the year

Scams on Facebook

Sesame Street turns 40

Moscow bans snow

Video reporting: Including multiple sources

Satirists take aim at Obama

Germ Center tackles sneezing

Twitter as a journalism tool

Convergence continues

Five Freedoms for Constitution Day

The Beatles: Rock Band debuts Wednesday

Defining Citizen Journalism

1994: Developing a newspaper eReader

Toyota's humanoid robot

Watch political cartoonist Jack Ohman draw

Storytelling across platforms

Texting till it hurts

Another newspaper goes online only

Journalism 101: Writing the lead paragraph

Cartoonist Steve Kelley on cartooning

Prisoners pay homage to Michael Jackson

Indoor airplane aerobatics

Iran erupts over election results

Online Newspapers -- in 1981!

All atwitter about Twitter



Announcement for teachers

Bealls Department Stores, Inc., has launched the Bealls and Whistles for Schools grant program, which will give $10,000 grants to ten Florida schools. Applications for Bealls and Whistles for Schools grants will be accepted December 1-31, 2010.

More details and information on applying


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