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...half as scary as the real world." At the same time, Stine also implies that the real world needs embellishment; his challenge, he says, is "to find new cheap thrills" for his young readers. "I mean disgusting, gross things to put in the book that they'll like: the cat is boiled in the spaghetti, a girl pours honey over a boy and sets ants on him. They like the gross stuff." Surely his young readers have some taboos? Furry animals? "The pets are dead meat," Stine replies. "If the kid has a pet, he's going to find...
Maybe the youngsters will move upward in their tastes, through Stephen King and V.C. Andrews to Hemingway, Joyce and Shakespeare. Or maybe they will boil the cat in the spaghetti...
Since their debut in 1940, cat-and-mouse combatants Tom and Jerry seemed as classic a pair of adversaries as David and Goliath -- only more violent. Yet in their first feature film, which is being released this week, the two put aside their traditional enmity and actually become partners. This is just one more example of a dismaying recent phenomenon: beautiful antagonisms turning into friendships...
Humans didn't even invent effective action-at-a-distance weapons until a mere 40,000 or so years ago. Only with these new tools, like the bow and arrow and the spear thrower, could our ancestors begin to mimic the speed and sharpness of a big cat's claws. Even so, predator animals remained a major threat. As late as the 7th century B.C., a stela erected by the Assyrian King Assurbanipal recounts the ferocity of the lions and tigers after torrential rains had flushed them out of their lairs; the great King, of course, stamped out the beasts...
...state. In New York City kids concoct a "Max" cocktail by dissolving GHB in water, then mixing in amphetamines. A different mix resulted in several overdoses in the Atlanta area in the past few months. Manhattan's hard-core sex community has also turned on to "Special K," or Cat Valium, an anesthetic that numbs the body...