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Aurora and Hollywood: Violence in Movies
No one thinks the movie cause the deadly atrocity at last week's screening in Colorado. But should Hollywood at least discuss the impact of a culture of violence?
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenNobody thinks the movie The Dark Knight Rises produced the deadly atrocity at last week's screening in Aurora, Colorado. But does Hollywood have the responsibility to talk about the possible impact of a culture of violence? Also, a massive study of 32 three-career families: the kind where mothers and fathers have jobs in addition to their task of raising children. We hear about kitchens and clutter. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, drought in the Midwest, a slow moving disaster.
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3 storiesViolence: On Screen and Off
Before Friday's massacre in Aurora, Colorado, The Dark Knight Rises was expected to break box office records. That's one reason there was a midnight screening there and at other theaters around the country.
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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century : 32 Families Open Their Doors is the title of a new book, which exactly describes the contents. It's an inter-disciplinary study by archaeologists, anthropologists and other social scientists, documenting the daily lives of 32 families.
Read the story13 minDrought and King Corn
More than 1000 counties in 29 states – the most ever -- have been declared natural disaster areas. This year's drought is making Midwestern cornfields look like the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. With both food and energy dependent on corn, is America over-reliant on one crop? Will prices rise at the grocery store?
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