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I think the correct term was "reins". But the screaming liberals decided it was inhumane or demeaning or something, and now you never see them being used.

Say what you like, but your (defenseless) kid can't walk off in shopping centres or run out into the path of the passing traffic.

Kids are kids, and they are not predictable or enlightened enough to run free in public places at that age.

ok so it probably was a myth, it was an amusing story when i studied there.
In any case it is now being demolished to make way for a new bigger building.
If your interested here are some links to images

the old building: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/051_d emolition/26.html

during demolition: http://www.aidan.co.uk/photo5041.htm

proposed new building: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/

Sony were taken to court by Camden and Manchester councils in the UK last year to get anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) against Sony Music and certain of it's executives in relation to fly posting. http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/121/12109 3_music_company_spared_asbo_over_flyposting_pledge .html

Dwight Yorke [footballer] and Katie Price aka Jordan [page 3/glamour model] have a child born blind. OK, so they both look like they've been beaten with the ugly stick and Jordan has had a tonne of plastic surgery, but still an athlete and a model having a child with a birth defect.

Heck, there are even guns that don't look like guns.

Gun disguised as key ring

Disguised as mobile phones

What entertainment value vs. educational value does a game solicited towards minors which promotes violence against authority figures have?...Would the thoughts of the freedoms we enjoy come back and haunt us? Ever?...What does matter is the simple thought of society training children and students with everything they don't need for a healthy life style.

Ay, there's the rub. How does a society balance the values of freedom of speech/expression with the need to raise a moral generation? The key here is to restrict access to minors, but not to adults. The average age of gamers is now 29, so naturally the entertainment industry is going to create games that appeal to an older audience. These games are clearly labeled with easy-to-understand ratings, just like movies. Grand Theft Auto is rated "M" for mature, and should probably not be played by people under the age of 17, or people with existing violent tendencies. But even if the game IS played by someone in the restricted group, IT'S NOT THE GAME'S FAULT. Don't blame the game, which is perfectly legal and acceptable in this society of free speech, for "creating" violence.

Yes, there is a lot of violence in our society, and in the media/entertainment industries. But whether actual violence spawned violence in entertainment, or vice versa, is up for debate. We can't point our fingers conclusively at the media, and say, "if there were no violent video games, there would be no violence!" That's crap, and everyone knows it's crap since violence has existed, without the presence of video games, movies, MTV, or any of the other popular scapegoats, for many centuries. And we can't point the finger the other way, either, and say, "a peaceful society doesn't have violent images in its entertainment!" Also crap, since violence has always been present in entertainment during peacetime, all the way back to the Roman gladiatorial games.

Let's face it: violence sells, and in the presence of free speech, should not be banned from the general public. That's called fascism. However, I think certain things need to be in place to "protect the children," as cliche as that phrase has become. In this country, it is actually a crime for a movie theater to sell tickets for an "R" rated movie to children under 17. There is no such law on the books for "M" rated videogames, although there are several in the works I know of, in D.C., Illinois, and Califonia. There may be other states talking about it, too. My point is this: don't cripple the video game industry by censoring it, just because one kid predisposed to violence played a video game he probably shouldn't have, and then blew away a couple of cops. My question is this: did his parents know the type of videogame he was playing? Did they notice any warning signs of violent tendencies and seek help for the child? This was not the game's fault; GTA and its sequels have sold 32 million copies worldwide, and only one kid has acted out violently because of what he saw in them. That's hardly a correlation between GTA and violent tendencies. I have played every version of GTA, some for very long periods of time, and I haven't killed a single cop in my life. Nor have I become more violent.

Let's place the blame squarely where it belongs: on the person committing the crime. Freedom and responsibility are mutually inclusive; a society cannot have one without the other.

I'm a hypnotist's wet dream.

EMERGENCY services, homes and businesses were hit after an underground fire in Manchester city centre cut 130,000 phone lines.

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We'll just have to hope that the London limousines don't go the way of the blackpool limousines!

From http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/newsletter/e wm302.html (near the bottom):

IMAGINE THE SPACE SHUTTLE BEING CARRIED by a team of men through the streets of New York. Well Hyde rocket man Steve Bennett had to have his team of assistants carry his rocket Starchaser 3a through the streets of Manchester. It had been on show at the Fab cafe theme bar, Portland St, and should have been taken to Salford University for a lecture, but the lorry booked to carry it was delayed, so it had to be transported using leg and shoulder power! Salford University lecturer Steve hopes to make it big through his rocket-building hobby-turned-business, and predicts a glowing future for space travel. Who knows, maybe in a few years time we'll be blasting off in one of Steve's rockets from Ringway to Mars on a late booking.

Anyway, he's been a local minor celebrity for years now, all the best to him.

Oh. That explains why Archimedes' bathtub wasn't included.

(You know; Archimedes was trying to figure out how to find out if a crown was made out of gold or not; he couldn't figure it out until he saw the displacement of water when he got into the bathtub, fiddled around getting in and out, etc., and finally jumped up and ran around Syracuse naked shouting "I have found it! [Heureka!]"

This page at Drexel has the details.)

So, why am I so sure from the title I know why this wasn't included as one of Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments? Have you seen what Archimedes looked like?