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| Washington Post: Television’s last frontier of innovation? UNL law professor Marvin Ammori said cable and satellite companies lease the majority of boxes to its customers -- the FCC said the same thing in its presentation-- so to say there is choice at retail doesn't address the fact that most consumers find it convenient to take the box provided ... |
| The Associated Press: AG: Nebraska sticking to 3-drug plan for executions The fact Ohio has moved to one drug should send a message," said Eric Berger, a law professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who studies the death penalty. "If they do have (a death penalty) the one-drug is a lot safer and more humane and easier to implement ... |
| CNN: It’s the end of the world as we show it Movie history is replete with end-of-the-world scenarios, whether driven by religion, alien invasion, environmental disaster or warfare. UNL film studies professor Wheeler Winston Dixon says the topic is almost as old as film itself: The first sound film of Abel Gance, who made the groundbreaking 1927 silent "Napoleon," was 1931 ... |
| The Orlando Sentinel: Scuffle turns to kerfuffle in Winter Park UNL communications studies professor Damien Pfister says the immediacy of an e-mail spreading a false rumor in a Florida community is one of the defining figures of digital media. "It sort of seems like word of mouth is on steroids now ... |
| ESPN.com: Fans behaving badly? Never fear The UNLPD's Jared Burkholder is a geographic information specialist -- someone who spots trends in data through mapping. Neither he nor his boss, UNLPD Chief Owen Yardley, is aware of any other campus police department with such a job on game day ... |
| The Orlando Sentinel: Woman’s nit-picking keeps kids’ heads clear of lice Barb Ogg, a pest expert and extension educator at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Office, said the surge in lice-removal businesses indicates two things: Over-the-counter products aren't working and families are busy ... |
| Cleveland Plain Dealer: ‘New Moon’ shines spotlight on werewolves The film's combination of vampires and werewolves is part of a horror-film tradition going back to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman" and other monster-team-up films, said Wheeler Winston Dixon, UNL film studies professor ... |
| San Jose Mercury News: Ten ways to end the world -- on film UNL's Wheeler Winston Dixon has charted cinema's love of the end, which is entrenched in a history that predates movies. "People are eager for the end, but they've always been eager for it, going back to the dawn of time ... |
| Los Angeles Times: Brazil raises cane over U.S. ethanol tariffs UNL's Ken Cassman says proponents of the tariff believe the strategic goals could be defeated by opening U.S. doors to Brazilian ethanol, because it could lead to the replacement of one dependency -- on oil imports -- with another -- on foreign ethanol ... |
| The Associated Press: Indian political awakening stirs Latin America There is no way to return to the past," says UNL professor Waskar Ari, who likens his country of Bolivia's "rebirth" to the casting off of apartheid on another continent two decades ago ... |
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