FCC probes 'fake news' at U.S. TV stations

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/08/16/fake-news-probe.html
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun an investigation of the use of video news releases, sometimes called "fake news," at U.S. television stations.
Video news releases are packaged stories paid for by businesses or interest groups. They use actors to portray reporters and use the same format as television news stories.
Of particular concern to the watchdogs were instances where the fake news items had run without informing viewers that they had been created by an outside group.
FCC rules demand that stations disclose "the nature, source and sponsorship of the material they are viewing" in video news releases.

humanitarian aid

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Some countries (e.g., those around the African Horn - Somalia, Ethiopia etc) can feed themselves only in case of a "bumper" crop. Those regions are experiencing a man-made ecological disaster on the scale unimaginable to the industrial societies.
To save the permanently starving, send them contraceptives instead of food.

FEMME MENTALE

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/06/MNG3HKAMVO1.DTL
Connecting through talking activates the pleasure centers in a girl's brain. We're not talking about a small amount of pleasure. This is huge. It's a major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of an orgasm.
Research shows that the female brain naturally releases oxytocin after a 20-second hug. The embrace bonds the huggers and triggers the brain's trust circuits. So Brizendine advises, don't let a guy hug you unless you plan to trust him. "And if you do," she said, "make sure it lasts 20 seconds."
Thoughts about sex enter women's brains once every couple of days; for men, thoughts about sex occur every minute.
Women use 20,000 words per day; men use 7,000 per day.
Women excel at knowing what people are feeling; men have difficulty spotting an emotion unless someone cries or threatens bodily harm.
Women remember fights that a man insists never happened.