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...simply to play and share are being bombarded with flash cards, educational CD-ROMS and other gadgets designed to teach reading, writing and even second languages. Grade-schoolers are spending longer hours at school, still longer ones sweating over homework and filling what time they have left with a buffet line of outside activities that may or may not build character but definitely build resumes. Kids who once had childhoods now have curriculums; kids who ought to move with the lunatic energy of youth now move with the high purpose of the worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For A Super Kid | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...simply to play and share are being bombarded with flash cards, educational CD-ROMs and other gadgets designed to teach reading, writing and even second languages. Grade-schoolers are spending longer hours at school, still longer ones sweating over homework and filling what time they have left with a buffet line of outside activities that may or may not build character but definitely build r?sum?s. Kids who once had childhoods now have curriculums; kids who ought to move with the lunatic energy of youth now move with the high purpose of the worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For A Superkid | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

...going to look like when the ash settles--like how much you will be shelling out for your tunes, though at first it's less likely to involve micropayments (99[cents] per Morissette single) and more likely to be subscription-based services ($9.99 a month for an Alanis buffet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Pain For Napster | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...Rodger's vengeful Old Testament God who is putting the five remaining Jobs through some pretty serious trials. No food except the rice, and apparently Keith is cooking it all next week. By the time Colby, who seems rather full of beans despite having apparently left his Reward Challenge Buffet in little piles all along the way home, receives the vengeance due the well-muscled and well-fed, CBS may well have a very serious Reality TV question to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On A Very Stormy 'Survivor,' the Placid One Goes Gently | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

...start planning any guilt-free buffet binges just yet: At this point, of course, any pill for humans is but a twinkle in the eye of every pharmaceutical company's CEO. More extensive tests are on the horizon, and eventually human subjects will be introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat Yourself Thin | 3/29/2001 | See Source »

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