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Chabon runs his fingers through his unkempt hair and looks up at the ceiling. He's one of those radiant-child adults, the kind you can imagine as the dreamy fourth-grader he must once have been. We're in his big Arts and Crafts-style house in Berkeley, Calif., with his wife Ayelet Waldman, a former public defender turned crime novelist, and their three children, Sophie, 7; Zeke, 5; and Ida-Rose, 16 months. Chabon and his wife live in a noisy, kid-centered world. Waldman's books are about a former public defender turned stay-at-home...
...Scientists sent men to the moon but still cannot suppress our appetites. I'd much rather be thin than go to the moon." DEENA NISSLEY Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...Laziness is practically a virtue in our society. It's not the food pyramid, not the wrong diet, not even the fast-food joints that are at fault. The blame lies with the individual who refuses to deny himself, educate himself and get off his rear. ANDRE GALLIATH Valencia, Calif...
...MacGregor, a high-tech entrepreneur, runs NanoMuscle, an Antioch, Calif., company that makes 3-in. motors suitable for everything from power windows to dolls with nuanced facial expressions. "I like to be on the wave of the next insanely great thing," he says. His motors work because the alloy nitinol can assume different shapes as its temperature fluctuates. An electrical current causes a nitinol wire in the device to shorten, allowing the linear motor to contract like a human muscle but at 1,000 times the strength. That's a simple task but an important one, and one MacGregor believes...
They came from as near as the Mallinckrodt chemistry labs on Oxford Street and as far as Berkeley, Calif...