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Though these electronic umbilical cords are meant to comfort anxious parents, they can backfire. "Now we get phone calls that are like, 'I saw my kid on your website, but he wasn't smiling. Is everything O.K.?'" says Richard Moss, who has run Camp Lenox in Massachusetts for 20 years. That may explain the recent surge in full-family camps, where kids and parents go hiking and sit around the campfire together. The number of these programs registered with the American Camp Association has jumped, from 192 in 1991 to 552 today. Pass the s'mores...
...DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists known for delighting young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films with their performances as the ever-anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, New Jersey and Moorpark, California, respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played other memorable roles, including Mr. Peterson, the brow-beaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show in the 1970s. Winchell, an early star of TV who regularly performed his ventriloquist act on variety shows in the 1950s and '60s, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
...Alan--learned early that self-reliance was a necessary survival skill. When rain occasionally wet the arid land, she wrote in Lazy B, a 2002 memoir that she co-authored with Alan, "We were saved again--saved from the ever present threat of drought, of starving cattle, of anxious creditors. We would survive a while longer." Self-reliance was also a political value: her father Harry was a staunch opponent of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. And it was a reason to respect knowledge: O'Connor's mother Ada Mae, a college graduate, would read to her from...
DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists who delighted young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films as two of Pooh's best pals, the ever anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, N.J., and Moorpark, Calif., respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played Mr. Peterson, the browbeaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show, and Winchell, a popular ventriloquist, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
Tucked away behind walls, doors, shades, locks, closed mouths, and closed minds, the disabled and the mentally handicapped have no such foothold on the attention and the anxious imagination of San Jose and Costa Rica. They are too expediently forgotten; too easily neglected and ignored...