Three major Internet provides have agreed to block access to websites and online discussion groups featuring child pornography, New York state attorney general said Tuesday.

“The pervasiveness of child pornography on the Internet is horrific and it needs to be stopped,” Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said in a statement on the agreement with Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable.

“We are attacking this problem by working with Internet Service Providers to ensure they do not play host to this immoral business,” he said, adding that the agreement “should serve as a model for the entire industry.”

Internet providers had initially refused to control the content of communication between online users, but they finally agreed to block the pedophile content, Cuomo said.

The agreement covers the entire United States and Cuomo said he was negotiating similar deals with other Internet providers.

“Online child pornography represents one of the worst abuses of the Internet,” said Jeff Zimmerman, senior vice president and chief ethics officer at Time Warner Cable.

“Among the steps Time Warner Cable is taking are removing Newsgroups from our Internet service,” Zimmerman said, referring to online discussion groups.

Verizon, with 8.2 million users, and Time Warner, with 7.9 million, are among the five largest Internet provides in the world. Sprint is one of the three biggest mobile phone companies.

News by : AFP
Date: 6/11/2008

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The Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses

It used to be heiresses just lunched, shopped and partied. Don’t tell the $20 billion babies on Forbes’ list of the 20 Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses, who defy the stereotype of the bon-bon popping princess thanks to achievements in business, sports and the arts.

Though society and gossip columns track them like Hollywood starlets, these women distinguish themselves by exhibiting the tenacity and risk-taking that makes their parents the most powerful people on Earth. Not all are success stories — it may take a lifetime for these women to match their parents’ legacies.

Forbes editors — our very own “wealth experts” — compiled the list. Under 40 and hailing from around the world, the heiresses are ranked according to their father’s or mother’s most recent net worth on either Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, the Forbes 400 list of the Richest Americans or Forbes Asia’s 40 Richest Indians.

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Charlize Theron Named Sexiest Woman Alive
Oct. 10, 2007

Charlize Theron attends the premiere of “Monster” at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb. 8, 2004.

NEW YORK — Charlize Theron has an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award. Now she’s Esquire magazine’s “sexiest woman alive.”

Past winners of the title include Jessica Biel, Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson. The issue featuring Theron hits newsstands Oct. 16.

Theron talked with the magazine about growing up on a farm, her political interests and her work, including her latest movie, “In the Valley of Elah,” a murder mystery set among U.S. troops newly returned from Iraq.

“I wanted to make the movie precisely because it evades formulas about guilt,” the 32-year-old actress said. “I’m drawn to ambiguity.”

Theron also candidly discussed her least favorite film, “Reindeer Games.”

“That was a bad, bad, bad movie,” she said. “But … I got to work with John Frankenheimer. I wasn’t lying to myself — that’s why I did it.”

Theron won an Oscar for her role in “Monster.” Her screen credits also include “North Country” and “The Cider House Rules.”