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...neither unlawful nor uncaring for adults to say that children should be seen but not heard. Kids got to be kids as they ran around outside playing hide-and-seek under the stars without worry of being snatched, molested or organized into youth activities, while parents sipped beer or pop while playing Yahtzee with their pals after hand-washing the dinner dishes. Nobody felt slighted, and nobody called child protective services. How sad and ironic that television - primarily responsible for making a mishmash of family life - should inadvertently be the one to call attention to the current sorry state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Arctic Grab | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

Harvard students who love to learn had the opportunity last week to even make their Friday night beer consumption educational...

Author: By Hee kwon Seo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Soak Up Beer Talk | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...these days? Once upon a Darwinian time, a man was the one spearing the woolly mammoth. And it wasn't so long ago that a man was that strong and silent fellow over there at the bar with the dry martini or a cold can of beer--a hardworking guy in a gray flannel suit or blue-collar work shirt. He sired children, yes, but he drew the line at diapering them. He didn't know what to expect when his wife was expecting, he didn't review bottle warmers on his daddy blog, and he most certainly didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatherhood 2.0 | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...sugar doughnuts and beer bongs, and men hate to let go of those too. Women forced the revolution by staging one of their own: in the 1970s they began storming into the workforce, making it harder for men to shirk child care. What's more, they showed their sons that it's possible to both work and parent. Economic forces were at work as well: for the entire 20th century, every successive generation of American men could expect to do better financially than their dads--that is, until Generation X. According to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatherhood 2.0 | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

Bennett proceeded to chug the rest of his beer, throw back his head, and emit a belch that could probably be heard in Somerville. His immediate vicinity smelled like juniper berries and Rose’s lime...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bystander | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

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