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Limit kids' TV viewing: study
Young children's TV viewing presents a dilemma to parents aware of potential harm to development, but a study released yesterday said children who stop watching so much by age five-and-a-half do not exhibit problems. "Reducing viewing to acceptable levels can reduce the risk of behavioral and social problems," said Kamila Mistry of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, author of the study published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The group has issued guidelines that discourage TV viewing among children younger than two years and recommend children older than two limit their viewing to less than two hours daily.
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Stone skipping record set
A Pennsylvania man cast a stone that skipped on water 51 times, shattering the old world record of 40. Russell Byars' feat happened on July 19. He estimated his stone traveled about 76m. Before declaring him a record holder, Guinness World Records experts analyzed film of Byars' toss, checking the concentric circles in the water by each skip. "I actually threw 40 stones that day, but that was the first skip that I threw," Byars told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper, which confirmed the record with Guinness officials. The old record was set in 2002.
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Man charged over child porn
A man accused of holding and showing off a tape depicting the sexual assault of a three-year-old girl was taken into custody on Sunday, authorities said. Darrin Tuck, 26, arranged to surrender after evading arrest since Friday, Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo said. Prosecutors were set to charge Tuck with possession of child pornography and possibly promoting child pornography yesterday, DeMeo said. Tuck has told authorities he found the tape in the desert, but authorities said he possessed it for as long as five months before turning it in. The girl in the tape was located after authorities on Friday released information they would not normally disclose in order to get tips from the public, including a picture, DeMeo said.
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Pamela Anderson to wed
Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon applied for -- and were granted -- a marriage license in Las Vegas, according to the Clark County's Marriage License Bureau. The license gained late on Saturday means the couple can get married any time during the next year. Anderson, 40, previously has been married to singer Kid Rock and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. Salomon, 38, is best known for making a sex videotape with his then-girlfriend Paris Hilton and was previously married to actress Shannen Doherty.
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