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Children are deeply weird people, and it takes a deeply weird adult to make TV for them. Fortunately for us, and for them, Anne Wood is just that weird. Wood, 65, is the pink-haired Englishwoman who created Teletubbies, that dreamy, Dadaesque little kids' show about colorful humanoids with TVs in their bellies who live under a sun that has the face of a baby. Now that Teletubbies has finally wrapped after 365 episodes, Wood has a new show that takes us back into the alternative universe of the very young. It's aimed at 3-to 6-year-olds...
Much of what makes Boohbah work is the absence of narration, of words telling the little watchers how to interpret what they're seeing instead of letting them fill the void with their own thoughts and ideas. This is so counterintuitive to the adult mind, trained to expect a constant stream of lessons and morals and pep talks, that Wood keeps videotapes of kids raptly watching Boohbah and gleefully gabbling back at the screen to calm nervous TV executives. "It's so difficult for people to believe that if you leave words off the program, children will supply them...
ZoneChefs Kids, a Mini-Me version of the adult food-delivery service ZoneChefs, was launched last week in New York City and goes nationwide Feb. 15. Based on the Zone diet (40% carbohydrates, 30% protein and 30% fat), ZoneChefs Kids home-delivers three child-friendly balanced meals and two snacks for $29 a day. Says Dr. Alan Salem, a pediatrician who helped develop ZoneChefs Kids: "We are teaching children to make healthy choices." Others disagree. "Kids don't need to diet," says Dr. Arthur Davidson, chairman of the board of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. "To take weight...
More than 42% of adult Americans smoked when the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health was published. Today, 40 years later, fewer than 23% do. That's good news, but it could be better--a lot better. The drop-off in smoking stalled in 1990 and has hardly budged since then. Surveys show that 70% of tobacco users want to quit, but kicking the nicotine habit isn't easy...
Despite efforts by the White House--and some Democrats--to depict Dean as a weasel for his opposition to the war, 8 out of 10 Democrats consider him patriotic. But voters are still coloring in their feelings about Dean--69% of adult Americans in the TIME/CNN poll say they do not know much about him, and more than three-quarters of Dean supporters say they could still change their minds...