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  Ban Violent Video Games to Protect Children
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  On June 27, 2011 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association that overturned a California law that would have banned children under 18 years old from purchasing violent video games. California argued that it had the responsibility to protect children from...

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  Will a Puzzle a Day Keep Dementia Away?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  When I was but a wee lad — in other words, decades before aging baby boomers began fretting about their diminishing brain power — I remember asking my grandmother why she so faithfully worked a newspaper crossword puzzle each day. “They keep the mind sharp,” she replied with a smile....

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  Voice Lesson
  Article by R Allen Shoaf

  Reflections on the mystery of singing

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  Farewell to the Name-Brand Film Critic?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  It has become fashionable, following the deaths of famed actors, musicians, sports stars and other celebrities, to magnify their supposed uniqueness and insist that our lives are poorer for their absence, and their like never again will grace our now-further-impoverished mudball. That’s...

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  Auto-Tune Moving Back Stage, Slowly
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  It’s been three years since Jay-Z declared the “Death of Auto-Tune” on his album The Blueprint 3, but the pitch-enhancing software still features prominently in popular songs and on YouTube. Will.i.am, member of the Black Eyed Peas and judge on NBC's "The Voice," recently admitted to a...