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...college, my television cartoon watching was limited to a weekly dose of the Simpsons and, occasionally, an episode of The Family Guy a roommate had downloaded onto his computer. But my summer cartooning mixes the comic and the action, and the protagonists of these shows are heroes—they display great courage, defeat their enemies and always do the right thing...
Though entertaining to anyone with a reasonable sense of humor, the cartoon is of particular, personal salience because I’ve been around these so-called “gifted” people for most of my life. I have seen the varied and sundry spectrum of “gifted” behavior all through high school and even now in college. But this summer, in my capacity as a residential counselor at Duke’s Talent Identification Program (TIP) for high school students, I have been left utterly speechless by some of the people...
...rural Illinois, and it is the citizens of Randolph County who form the juries that decide every year or two whether he should stay at the institution. Randolph is a place where the newspaper lists the Parish Hall's Sunday chicken dinners on page 2. The creator of the cartoon character Popeye was born in the town of Chester in 1894, and its major annual event is a picnic next to a 900-lb. bronze statue of the sailor man. Popeye's innocent charm somehow coexists with Chester's other landmarks, the Menard prison and the Chester Mental Health Center...
...vegetarians (see box). The most notorious are the vegan (rhymes with intriguin' or fatiguin') vegetarians. The Green Party of the movement, vegans decline to consume, use or wear any animal products. They also avoid honey, since its production demands the oppression of worker bees. TV's favorite vegetarian, the cartoon 8-year-old Lisa Simpson, once had a crush on a fellow who described himself as "a Level Five vegan--I don't eat anything that casts a shadow." Among vegan celebrities: the rock star Moby and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who swore off steak for breakfast and insists...
Mutual curiosity helped too. York, Clark's black slave, was a hit with the Indians, hamming it up to break the ice. In time, relations grew friendly, even intimate. The men of the corps were soldiers, not saints, and their commanders were realistic men, not cartoon superheroes. Lewis carried a stockpile of medicine, including potions to treat venereal diseases. He found more than a few occasions to administer the stuff...