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...right thing in crumbling old school buildings has got industrialists and corporations to cough up real money for new playgrounds and gardens and reading and tutoring programs, including $10 million for new books. This year, for the first time, Los Angeles and Chicago have initiated copy-cat programs. Principal for a Day is one of the few areas of harmony between New York's warring Rudys: Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew...
...U.S.F. and I.O.A. are aimed at the 9- to 15-year-olds, too hip for the Magic Kingdom but still young enough to tolerate a week's vacation with their parents. As consumers, these kids are warier. So the coasters are scarier, the flume rides hairier. Even I.O.A.'s Cat in the Hat ride, tailored for kids, may upset some young stomachs with its gyrations. Disney soothes, like a kindly grandma taking the toddlers for an afternoon stroll. Universal rattles and rocks; it is Bart Simpson baby-sitting Maggie...
...names and faces of people they've never met but would probably have enjoyed. Tell them stories about their family, even if you can dredge up only dim memories or anecdotes--like the one about my mother, who once found an alligator in the kitchen eating out of the cat's bowl. This is how they will learn that for better or worse, there is no family like theirs...
What causes the epidemic of imitation? "You need a cat to do the copying," says Harvard psychologist William Pollack. "It starts with kids who are already somewhere close to the edge." Copycats model themselves on crimes, both real and fictional, that grab a lot of attention. When the movie Money Train came out a few years ago, with a scene of flammable liquid being squirted into a New York City token booth and set on fire, real-life robbers duplicated the act and badly burned a token clerk. After the TV movie The Burning Bed aired in 1984, with Farrah...
...When doctors test for allergies, they often use a method that's scary enough to send anyone into a wheezing fit: they inject up to 50 allergens under the skin and then wait to see which causes a reaction. But the practice may be unnecessary. In pinpointing, for example, cat allergies, the shots turn out to be no more effective than lightly pricking the skin with an allergen or simply testing the blood...