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...most indulged generation are setting new records when it comes to indulging their kids. The indictment gathered force during the roaring '90s. A TIME/CNN poll finds that 80% of people think kids today are more spoiled than kids of 10 or 15 years ago, and two-thirds of parents admit that their kids are spoiled. In New York City it's the Bat Mitzvah where 'N Sync was the band; in Houston it's a catered $20,000 pink-themed party for 50 seven-year-old girls who all wore mink coats, like their moms. In Morton Grove...
...American Dream, which dispenses antidotes for raging consumerism, two-thirds of parents say their kids define their self-worth in terms of possessions; half say their kids prefer to go to a shopping mall than to go hiking or on a family outing; and a majority admit to buying their children products they disapprove of--products that may even be bad for them--because the kids said they "needed" the items to fit in with their friends...
...small problem: while there are thousands of online book clubs for discussing, not buying, books, I quickly learned that most have no focused topic to discuss. What's worse, many are virtual ghost towns long since abandoned by their participants. Unwilling to admit failure--or admit how little time I had spent "researching" this idea--I plowed through dozens of clubs until I found some winners...
...surprise that spouses don't always tell each other everything. But a new poll suggests that it's not extramarital dalliances--or even opinions about partners' waistlines--that spouses usually keep mum about. Of the 4 in 10 Americans who admit to keeping a secret from their husband or wife, most are afraid to spill the beans on the price tag of their purchases. Husbands, it should be noted, were just as likely as wives to lie about how much they spent...
...commercial whaling. Japan denies that, and says its studies of the impact of whale appetites on fish stocks are important. "Blaming whales for eating too many fish is like blaming woodpeckers for deforestation," responds Greenpeace. The diplomatic wrangle of the week, though, was the commission's decision to admit Iceland only as an observer. Iceland walked out of the IWC in 1992, saying it never expected the 1986 moratorium to be in place that long. Last month, Iceland wanted back in - while saying it reserved the right to resume whale hunting if it decided the populations were strong enough. That...