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Kids’ screen time swells, and an ‘app gap’ emerges
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Children younger than 8 are spending more time than ever in front of screens, according to a new study by Common Sense Media. The report also documents for the first time an emerging “app gap” between kids in high- and low-income households, in terms of access to newer mobile devices such as the
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PERCENTAGE OF KIDS WHO HAVE EVER USED A CELLPHONE, IPOD, IPAD OR SIMILAR DEVICE, BY FAMILY INCOME
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Watching TV, DVDs or video on a TV, computer, iPod or iPad Reading/being read to Listening to music Playing media games Other computer activities Other apps on cell, iPod or iPad Screen media time Total media time
PERCENTAGE OF KIDS WHO HAVE TV SETS IN THEIR BEDROOMS
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Children 8 years old and younger spend more than three hours a day with various forms of media, with more than half of that time watching television.
AVERAGE TIME KIDS SPEND WITH MEDIA IN A TYPICAL DAY
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Jaden Lender, 3, likes crushing the ants in “Ant Smasher” and improving his swing in the golf app on his parents’ iPad. “Jaden’s really learning hand-eye coordination from the golf game,” said his father, Keith Lender, of New York, who has downloaded dozens of tablet and smartphone apps, “and it beats the hell out of sitting and watching television.” In a new study by Common Sense Media, almost half the families with incomes above $75,000 had downloaded apps specifically for their young children, compared with one in eight of the families earning less than $30,000. Kids in lower-income households, meanwhile, watch more TV. In families with incomes under $30,000, 64 percent of kids younger than 8 had TVs in their rooms, compared with 20 percent in families with incomes above $75,000. To read the study, go to www.commonsensemedia.org.
$30,000$75,000
55%
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PERCENTAGE OF PARENTS WHO SAY THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT AN “APP” IS 38%
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Over $75,000
Source: “Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America,” A Common Sense Media Research Study New York Times News Service
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By Michael Rubinkam
Owning exotic animals in the U.S.
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Yadah used to be an adorable baby. Now he’s a cranky 5-year-old with a willful streak and a $250-per-month food bill, and Shannon Pandarvis is desperate to get rid of him. Pandarvis’ brown capuchin monkey has become too expensive for the out-of-work utility worker and his wife, but the couple can’t find a sanctuary to take him in. A week after dozens of lions, tigers and bears were slain by police after an Ohio man mired in debt freed them from his preserve, rescue organizations say the economic downturn is contributing to a problem that’s existed for as long as exotic animals have been kept as pets. Sanctuaries have neither the space nor the financial wherewithal to come to the rescue of overmatched owners who can no longer care for their big cats, monkeys or even parrots. Some sanctuaries have closed their doors, contributing to the population of unwanted, difficult-to-place beasts that can cost $10,000 a year or more to maintain. “If you want to place a big cat, I would tell you that every reputable sanctuary is full and more than full,” said Patty Finch, executive director of the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries, an accrediting body.
Federal laws don't cover possession of certain exotic animals. State laws vary markedly. Oregon is among the states that do not permit private ownership.
State laws on private possession of exotic animals Ban on private ownership Partial ban on private ownership of some exotic animals License or permit required
R.I. Conn. Del.
No license or permit requirements
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Even rescues that were financially strong a few years ago, she said, have been forced to dip into their reserves to meet expenses because private donors and foundations have reduced their giving amid the prolonged economic slump. This year, the owner of a Florida wildlife rescue center lived in a cage with two lions for a month as a fundraising ploy to keep the facility afloat. In San Antonio, the Wild Animal Orphanage folded last fall “due to overpopulation, underfunding and inadequate housing for the animals,” according
to its website. It took months to place several hundred tigers, bears, lions, cougars, wolves and primates. In Zanesville, Ohio, Terry Thompson committed suicide last Tuesday after opening the cages of dozens of lions, tigers and other beasts at his exotic animal preserve, forcing sheriff’s deputies to kill nearly 50 escaped animals. Thompson’s motive remains unclear, but he and his wife owed at least $68,000 in unpaid taxes, and he had just gotten out of federal prison last month for having unregistered weapons.
His case has renewed old questions about the wisdom of keeping dangerous animals as pets. “The novelty wears off, and then they turn into what they are: wild animals,” said Kari Bagnall, founder of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary in Gainesville, Fla. “After they’ve chewed up the neighbor or escaped a couple times, people want to find a home for them. And it’s getting tougher and tougher.” Unwanted exotics are more than just a problem for the rescue community. In 2010, Florida banned the private ownership and sale of Burmese pythons and six other large, nonnative reptile species because some were being let loose in the Everglades, killing native species. It’s unclear whether most of the pythons were released because they got too big for the owners to handle, or for economic reasons, or a combination of both. Whatever the reason, their numbers in the park have grown exponentially, to perhaps more than 100,000, because they are prolific egg-layers. “It’s an eco-disaster,” said Tim Harrison of Outreach for Animals, a wildlife advocacy group. Snake owners, he said, “call these rescue facilities, and nobody has room for a 15foot python.”
It’s Wednesday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2011. There are 66 days left in the year.
HAPPENINGS • Lawyers for John Edwards ask a federal court judge to dismiss charges that he violated campaign finance laws by using money from two wealthy benefactors to support his pregnant mistress during his run for the presidency in 2008. • Top European officials return to Brussels for their second summit on the continent’s debt crisis this week. B2. • Federal prosecutors are expected to file criminal charges against Rajat Gupta, the most prominent business executive ensnared in an aggressive insider trading investigation. Gupta is expected to surrender to authorities. B1. • A delegation of Arab ministers is expected to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad and other top officials in Damascus to discuss starting a dialogue between the government and opposition forces. • Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, visit Melbourne, Australia’s secondlargest city.
IN HISTORY Highlights: In 1861, the legendary Pony Express officially ceased operations, giving way to the transcontinental telegraph. (The last run of the Pony Express was completed the following month.) In 1774, the First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia. In 1881, the “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” took place in Tombstone, Ariz. In 1958, Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in 8 hours and 41 minutes. In 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death during a dinner party along with his chief bodyguard by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jae-kyu, who was later executed. Ten years ago: President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists. Five years ago: A wildfire in Southern California killed five firefighters (investigators later determined the cause of the blaze was arson). One year ago: Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death for persecuting members of Shiite religious parties under the former regime. (The sentence has yet to be carried out.) Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant.
BIRTHDAYS TV host Pat Sajak is 65. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is 64. Actress Rita Wilson is 55. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is 52. Actor Dylan McDermott is 50. Actor Cary Elwes is 49. Singer Natalie Merchant is 48. Country singer Keith Urban is 44. Actor Tom Cavanagh is 43. Actress Rosemarie DeWitt is 40. Writer-producer Seth MacFarlane (TV: “Family Guy”) is 38. Actor Jon Heder is 34. Olympic silver medal figure skater Sasha Cohen is 27. —From wire reports
The numbers drawn Tuesday night are:
13 33 40 44 46 8 x4 The estimated jackpot is now $67 million.
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Coffee drinkers have a lower risk of skin cancer By Jennifer LaRue Huget The Washington Post
More good news on the coffee front: Brand-new research finds that people who drink coffee are at reduced risk of developing basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer. And the more
they drink, the lower the risk. The research, presented Monday at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Boston, looked at coffee consumption and the risk of three forms of skin cancer — basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and the
rarer and more deadly melanoma — among about 113,000 participants in two long-term surveys. The data showed that women who consumed more than three cups of caffeinated coffee a day had a 20 percent lower risk of basal cell carcinoma than those
who drank less than a cup a month. For men, the reduced risk was more modest, just 9 percent. There was no association between coffee consumption and either squamous cell carcinoma or melanoma.
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