"Good morning, Mr Trump."
The innocuous greeting from a New York judge belied the grim expression on Donald Trump's face as he sat flanked by his lawyers in the Manhattan Criminal Courts Monday, settling in for a long criminal trial.
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Incredible scenes...
By GRACE TSOI
Even innocuous topics have become controversial for Wikipedia
editors from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and compounding the issue are
language differences.
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Man 'Butt Dials' 911 During Drug Deal
By Samantha Grossman
Police
dispatchers are no strangers to accidental calls, but these "butt
dials" usually reveal little more than muffled, innocuous chatter,
broadcast from the pocket of an innocent civilian
Since late March, when Google moved its search operations out of mainland China to Hong Kong, each response to a Chinese citizen’s search request has been met at the border by government computers, programmed to censor any forbidden information Google might turn up.
“Carrot” — in Mandarin, huluobo — may seem innocuous enough. But it contains the same Chinese character as the surname of President Hu Jintao. And the computers, long programmed to intercept Chinese-language searches on the nation’s leaders, substitute an error message for the search result before it can sneak onto a mainland computer.
UK children 'trafficked for sex'
By Paul Deal
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Girls are often threatened with violence by men who had befriended them
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Children as young as 10 are being moved around the UK to be sexually exploited at parties organised by paedophiles, a charity says.
World Health Organization Raises Swine Flu Alert Level
By DENISE GRADY
On the day that a Mexican toddler became the first person to die of the disease on United States soil, the W.H.O. warned that a “pandemic is imminent.”
英国00后，裹在套子里的一代？
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是个人都有恋童癖？
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| 为拍一张学生就餐的照片，校长要征求家长同意，完成必要的程序。 |
保护孩子们的安全是头等大事，做家长的我举双手赞成；而近乎妄想狂的集体歇斯底里，同样让我担忧。
我 女儿所在的小学，是当年向垃圾食品宣战的明星大厨吉米•奥利维尔（Jamie Oliver）发动“学校厨房革命”的根据地之一。我曾为此做过一个特别的专题节目。在联系采访时，我提出要拍几张学生就餐的照片供BBC中文网发稿时 用。校长Hunter夫人说，别的她都可以做主，唯独这个要求不能由她拍板，而要由家长说了算。
学校给每一位学生家长发了信，告诉他们我的要求。不同意学生在照片里出现的家长要回信声明。有多少家长提出反对我不得而知，但完成这个“必要的程序”前后折腾了两个星期。
我的经历与贝蒂•罗宾逊（Betty Robinson）相比，就是小巫见大巫了。贝蒂练习摄影，对着一个空的儿童戏水池拍照，被工作人员拦住。阻止贝蒂拍照，是怕她有恋童癖（paedophile）。对着一个空水池，你拍个什么劲儿？工作人员的警惕性很高。
可贝蒂已经82岁了！“这太荒唐了，这是官僚主义发疯了。我一个老太婆，哪来的恋童癖”？贝蒂喃喃的抱怨。
toddler - 學步的小孩;蹣跚行走者Toddler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- [ 翻譯此頁 ]A toddler is a young child who is of the age of learning to walk. between infancy and childhood. Toddling usually begins between age 12 and 24 months. ...pedophileNote: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: an adult who is sexually attracted to children
Synonym: paedophile
pedophilia
(pĕd'ə-fĭl'ē-ə, pē'də-)
--> n.The act or fantasy on the part of an adult of engaging in sexual activity with a child or children.
pedophiliac ped'o·phil'i·ac (-ăk) adj. & n.
Lolita
- Main Entry:
- Lo·li·ta
- Pronunciation:
- \lō-ˈlē-tə\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- from Lolita, character in the novel Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
- Date:
- 1959
: a precociously seductive girl
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蕩女的床？
英國大型零售商Woolworths被迫從網上撤下一款小女孩的睡房家具。這個床取名為洛麗塔Lolita。就是這個名字出了問題。
《泰晤士報》報道說，一個母親準備在網上給女兒買一張床，當她看到Woolworths的這張床竟然取用了著名電影《洛麗塔》（《一樹梨花壓海棠》）的名字後，感到異常震驚。
這部備受爭議的電影改編自一本描寫12歲女孩洛麗塔與中年後父勾搭的小說。第一個版本是60年代大導演庫布裡克的作品，後來"洛麗塔"這個名字成為了孌童癖或蕩女的代號。
這個震驚的母親在網上取得了其他父母的認同，一些人向Woolworths提出投訴。起初，Woolworths 的員工還不知道是怎麼一回事。
Woolworths的發言人說，網站的員工從來沒聽說過洛麗塔這回事，後來在網上查過了才曉得。
in·noc·u·ous (ĭ-nŏk'yū-əs)
adj.
- Having no adverse effect; harmless.
- Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid.
innocuousness in·noc'u·ous·ness n.
From
February 3, 2008
You made the Lolita bed, so lie in it
We need to get away from the notion that middle-class parents have nothing to do with the sexualisation of children
Nevertheless, the Lolita Midsleeper Combi, a whitewashed wooden bed with a pull-out desk, suitable from age six, was, until last week, available on the Woolworths website, yours for £395.
Woolworths has since withdrawn the Lolita bed, following a campaign started by an online group for mothers. A spokesman for the company told The Times last Friday: “The staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita and to be honest no one else here had either. We had to look it up on Wikipedia. But we know who she is now.”
This is quite depressing in itself: the baffled staff, scratching their heads, wondering what a Lolita is and needing to look it up. They remind me of someone I knew in the 1980s, grumbling because their Special AKA record didn’t apparently include a “free” Nelson Mandela, whatever a Nelson Mandela might be.
The bed itself is part of a long line of age-inappropriate merchandise for young children: padded bras for girls too small to actually have bosoms, thongs for eight-year-olds, Playboy stationery and bedding, tiny glittery T-shirts saying “Babe” or “Hands Off!” (I once saw a girl of about 11 wearing one saying “Porn Star”).
The inside back page of celebrity gossip magazines such as Heat often features advertisements for downloadable mobile phone wallpaper: a recent issue’s offerings included “Instant slut – just add alcohol”, “U + Me = Sex” and “Slapper”. Put it this way – I doubt they’re being downloaded and proudly displayed by women in their thirties. Or twenties. Or late teens.
Eighteen months ago, Tesco removed a pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of its website, and so it goes on.
A new item of this kind springs up for every one there has been an outcry over and frankly it’s no wonder, since even dolls for five-year-olds look like prostitutes. This in turns leads to five-year-olds, who love their dollies, thinking it’s a very good look and equating attractiveness with the crassest, most obvious kind of sexiness and – recipe for future unhappiness, this – physically impossible features, such as micro-noses and eyes as big as your hand.
Barbie, whose real-life statistics, someone once worked out, would be 39-18-33, looks old-fashioned in comparison – plus, maligned as she was, she actually did stuff: she could be, among other things, Astronaut Barbie or Doctor Barbie, and she has come in different skin tones since 1968.
As usual, it is easy to blame all this child-sexualising stuff on manufacturers, but they wouldn’t make it if people didn’t buy it. And buy it they do, by the shedload, from the relatively innocuous – miniature make-up and nail polish for toddlers (I am under constant pressure to buy these and don’t quite know what to make of them: I basically disapprove, but am hard pushed to see how pretend make-up differs from the homemade alternative, face-paint make-up) – via the dubious – baby T-shirts saying “Future Boy Magnet” – to the downright creepy likes of the pole-dancing kit.
We may not like the idea as parents, but we are all complicit to an extent, unless we force our children to play with peg dolls and brown paper and to dress up only as trade unionists or Beatrice Webb.
Even the proliferation of pink – pink room, pink bed, pink clothes and shoes and hairclips and coats – is arguably instilling the notion that there’s only one way to be feminine. We still do it, though, or at least I do (says the woman who has spent the morning trying to find instructions on how best to make a Cinderella birthday cake. Maybe I’ll atone for my pink sins and make a Germaine Greer one instead. Except then I’ll have 24 crying four-year-olds).
On the same day as reports of the Lolita bed hit the headlines, so did the news that 89% of parents, according to a survey of 1,000 families, preferred playing their children pop music than singing to them. The consequence is that nursery rhymes are on the way out: more than 80% of parents questioned thought they knew the second line of Incy Wincy Spider, but a quarter of them could not recite it correctly; 20% could not sing Baa Baa Black Sheep or Humpty Dumpty.
Apparently this may be a direct consequence of the X Factor culture, whereby adults are so afraid of criticism (what, from a two-year-old?) that they dare not sing to their children.
I think that if we’re ever going to knock this problem on the head, we need to get away from the widely held notion that nice middle-class parents have nothing to do with the sexualisation of children, and that it’s only people who don’t know any better who encourage their offspring into terrifying precocity.
The truth is, we all do it, whether it’s by encouraging a devotion to make-up, or buying our daughters clothes that make us feel uneasy, or not asking to see the contents of the computer game, or thinking it’s funny that a 12-year-old boy reads magazines whose mainstay is topless women who are gagging for it.
When I was a child I had friends whose parents wouldn’t allow them to read Enid Blyton, or to play with Barbies or toy guns. I felt very sorry for them because they would come round and fall slavering onto any of these thrilling forbidden goods, but I am forced to admit, decades later, that it didn’t do them any harm and possibly quite a lot of good: they spent their time doing rather more interesting stuff, such as music or (how I used to snigger) nature walks.
So while I hesitate to urge an outright banning of anything dubious, and while I weary of parents who are constantly decrying the demise of conkers and “making your own fun”, I do think that you can’t complain about the Lolita bed if your child owns more than one piece of inappropriate clothing (which you’ve probably bought because, tragically, you’re more interested in being her “friend” than her mother). It’s our fault, too.
india.knight@sunday-times.co.uk
innocuous
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Pronunciation: /iˈnäkyo͞oəs/
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