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Here are mine: the television should not be on during mealtime or while a child is doing homework. Kids should ask an adult for permission before turning it on. Parents should convey to their children that watching television is a planned activity. A friend of mine goes through the TV listings with his three sons to discuss what they'd like to watch, and I think that's a great idea. The TV should be turned off when a particular show is over. Parents should also make an effort to become familiar with the shows that their kids watch. Television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Must-See TV? | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...lucky ones escaped. The rest were entombed in a mess of logs and wires. After close to 24 hours of furious searching, there were 12 dead and 28 injured, some critically, and a heartbreaking pile of questions: Did the center pole snap? Were sufficient precautions taken? Was there any adult supervision? And is any ceremony worth the risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Time Goes Bad | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...kegs at some big party than it is for me to eat the grapes picked by migrant workers in California. Nevertheless, it cannot be healthy for people our age (or any age, really) to get used to these kinds of power dynamics, to the peculiarities of being served by adult men in a private club for college-age guys. For that matter, members should try not to get used to a world in which men are always the hosts and women are always the guests. Harvard and the world at large have been, since the beginning of human history...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: To the Punch Class of 1999: Just Try To Maintain Some Perspective | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Mudd wannabe could) and to describe what he stood for in ways that wouldn't make voters' eyes glaze over. Some of the group's ideas for jazzing up Senator Sominex were deemed too creative. (That's always a hazard when you are culling advice from a world where adult diapers are hawked as a fashion statement.) The campaign reportedly rejected doing an aerial shot of a giant pair of shoes to conjure up the former Knick as tall and Lincolnesque. But Bradley and his team took other suggestions. The Crystal Group came up with the slogan IT CAN HAPPEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branding of Bill Bradley | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...potential adult audience for graphic novels and cartoon films should have the U.S. media giants drooling. Just love those demographics! Think of the cross-marketing! A few players are onto anime already. Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, is a big investor in Manga Entertainment, the premier U.S. arm for anime. Its spectral cyborg parable, Ghost in the Shell, was the only anime to reach No. 1 on Billboard's Top Video Sales chart. Perfect Blue (a kind of All About Evil, in which a pop diva is both the star and her twisted alter ego) has played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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