Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each detachable limb. He has a camera in his nose. He chases after balls, as long as they're hot pink. He walks on all fours--a major cybernetic achievement, I'm told. He wags his tail freely and waves a paw cheerily. He can spin his limbs around, get to his feet when he's lying on his back--another giant leap for robotkind--and take a virtual leak. But AIBO can be willful too. His eyes go red if you pat him too hard. If he can't quite reach his hot-pink ball, he will freak...
...kids make excellent porters. Kyle McCarthy, editor of Family Travel Forum, an online newsletter, says anyone over age four can handle a bulging backpack plus a kid-size rolling suitcase (Fisher-Price and Kelty K.I.D.S. make nice ones). And even two-year-olds can manage a fanny pack around the waist. To keep suitcases neat, pack complete outfits in tidy bundles or zippered plastic bags, which can be reused for wet bathing suits or messy souvenirs...
...gotta eat, but what'll it be? Since Dad's a chef, the Baylis family of Tarrytown, N.Y., plans road trips around fun restaurants--for more on this delicious strategy, see Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A., by Jane and Michael Stern (Broadway Books; 1999). The Keenses, on the other hand, head for the salad bar at the nearest grocery store. Then there's the ham-sandwiches-in-the-cooler option. Whatever you choose, make sure there's plenty of it: in the words of one road hog, "If we ate as much at home as we eat on vacation...
...wonderful," she says. And one weathered traveler has been pleasantly surprised when her two teenagers have brought friends along on vacation: "If I eavesdrop, I can find out what's really going on in my kids' lives. Plus, they treat me a lot better when there's a witness around...
...with HMOs gotten? Bad enough for doctors, at least, to start thinking about the unthinkable: forming a union. The idea of taking a cue from blue-collar-labor history is one of the hottest topics at this week?s convention of the American Medical Association in Chicago. Many doctors around the country are growing increasingly frustrated at the restrictions that HMO money-vetting procedures have imposed on the exercise of their medical judgment. And a growing number of them want to do something about...