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...comic strips and radio serials shaped children of earlier generations, so television shows formed the children of the 1980s. Ours is a generation that can sing the opening strains of the Sesame Street theme song, a generation that read along with Lavar Burton and a generation that can name the majority of the Muppets. Because ours is a generation of children reared on television, college students felt a personal sense of loss on learning last week that Mister Rogers, the television neighbor of our childhood, had died of stomach cancer...
...Virginia the DMV levies a service charge on credit-card payments. California is expected to triple motor-vehicle--license fees, adding nearly $4 billion a year to the state's coffers. Higher income taxes for the wealthiest Californians are a possibility too, according to Democratic state senator John Burton. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is weighing a surtax on those who earn more than $200,000 a year...
When the temperature drops, music lovers are often forced to choose between unzipping their jacket, thus exposing themselves to arctic blasts, and listening to the same set of songs over and over until they pray for frostbite. With the Burton AG Clone MD Jacket, you don't have to choose. Designed for snowboarders, the jacket is made with a Sony Mini-Disc and digital music player sewn right into its fabric. The player's controls are touch-sensitive fabric patches on the jacket's sleeve, so you can control the music just by pressing your arm. INVENTOR Burton Snowboards AVAILABILITY...
...nominated Irish actor known to his generation for lead roles in This Sporting Life (1963) and Camelot (1967), and to younger audiences as Professor Albus Dumbledore, the wise old wizard in the Harry Potter series; in London. A notorious carousing buddy of Peter O'Toole and the late Richard Burton, Harris once described his face as "five miles of bad country road." He had just finished filming the second Harry Potter film...
...When Burton and senior forward Jay Alberts, both going for a headball, crashed down upon Harvard sophomore goalkeeper Jamie Roth, the Harvard defense quickly rushed to the scene. A short fight in the Harvard net ensued, with players pushing each other back and forth. One Yale player, after being shoved hard, got tangled in the net and fell to the ground, to the delight of the Harvard fans watching the melee...