Some Horrifying facts about media violence in children's lives: By the end of elementary school, the average child will have seen 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts in the media. Children's cartoons and action programs average more than 20 acts of violence per hour, compared with 5 acts per hour during prime-time hours. The sale of Mighty Morphin Power Ranger products (based on the extremely violent TV show) surpassed $1 billion in 1994. More than $3 billion of products related to the Star Wars movie have been sold worldwide. In one survey, more than 90% of teachers thought the Power Rangers led to increased violence among the children they taught.
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Have you ever called an attention-seeking friend a drama queen? Maybe you asked to have your meal supersized? Chances are, you google at least a few times a week. Merriam-Webster has just revealed its list of 100 new words that will be added to the dictionary this fall. Among those words are unibrow (eyebrows growing together) and manga (Japanese comic-books). "We try to have a mix that addresses the wide range of people's information needs when adding new words," said John Morse, president of the Springfield-based dictionary publisher . "It could be a technical term or some light-hearted slang that sends people to a dictionary." From Slang to Science How are new words added to the dictionary? Researchers search thousands of newspapers, magazines and websites for new words and phrases that are gaining popularity in the English language. "We need evidence that the word is showing up in publications that people are reading on an everyday basis," Morse sa
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Goodbye to a Legendary Tortoise Harriet, a 330-pound tortoise, dies at age 176 A 176-year-old giant tortoise named Harriet died Friday at a zoo in Australia. Harriet, who weighed around 330 pounds, died of heart failure. Harriet's owner, Steve Irwin, hosts the Animal Planet network's popular show The Crocodile Hunter. Irwin and his wife, Terri, mourned Harriet's death. "She is possibly one of the oldest living creatures on the planet and her passing today is not only a real loss for the world but a very sad day for my family," Irwin said. The Tortoise's Tale Harriet was believed to be the world's oldest living tortoise and one of the oldest living creatures on earth. But despite her remarkably long life, Harriet was not the world's oldest known tortoise. That title is held by Tui Malila, a Madagascar radiated tortoise who lived to be 188 years old. Tui Malila died in 1965 and earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records in the category of Oldest
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