A software program designed to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit sites on the Internet backfired. The program works by checking the contents of each site against a list of forbidden words, but users found that they had trouble accessing the White House's Web site because it contained the word "couples."

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Terry Pristin in the New York Times, July 9, 1996:

The Pleasantville [N.J.] School Board recently voted to make the October anniversary of the Million Man March a school holiday. To make room for it on the school calendar, the board voted to eliminate the traditional Veterans Day holiday.

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In New York City, one needs a license to offer a weight-reduction class, to repair videocassette recorders or install ventilation systems, to work as an usher or sell tickets at wrestling matches, to work as a security guard or remove and dump snow and ice, or to set up a parking lot or a junk shop. Cosmetologists require 1,000 hours of training to become licensed, compared with 116 hours to qualify as an emergency medical technician and 47 hours to become an armed security guard. The going rate for a taxi medallion, which authorizes drivers to pick up passengers on the streets of New York, is over $200,000.

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