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...media and maybe pick up some magazine assignments--covering the wars in Africa, for example, or the Rudy Giuliani-Hillary Clinton race. But he concedes there isn't much cash to be made in drawing long, depressing cartoon strips. That's when he starts to sketch a disturbing-looking chicken with a human head who's misunderstood by both human and chicken communities. He calls it the Human Poultry Item. "This is the character who's going to make me rich," he says. And sad as it is, that chicken-man does seem easier to understand than Bosnia...
Shortly after the plane took off (an hour late), my flight attendant appeared with a food tray laden with warm bread, real-butter pats shaped like flowers, chicken with black-bean salsa and fresh fruit. I washed this down with a Fetzer Eagle Peak Merlot and topped it all off with chocolate truffles. I fired up the TV in the seat back--all 24 channels worked fine--and entertained myself by flipping through everything from ESPN Classic to CNNfn. I called my office from the armrest phone, then plugged in my computer...
What if Abby from "Dear Abby" married Cliff from Cliff's Notes? What if somebody spiked Chicken Soup for the Soul with Harvard's Core Curriculum? What if a hapless humanities major condensed his four-year, $120,000 liberal arts education into a 100-page, $9.95 self-help manual...
...think Harvard may have realized that this phenomenon was getting away from it," he says. "[Faculty venturing out on their own] might dilute Harvard's ability to be a unique institution--which I think is a little like Chicken Little fearing that the sky was falling...
Those contradictions will never be fully resolved, but in the meantime, parents can try an ounce of prevention. The first order of business: the chicken-pox vaccine. It's not 100% effective, but at the very least it shortens the illness, which can last a week or more. And even toddlers can learn good hygiene: besides cutting down on colds, your family may also dodge the flu, which strikes roughly half the school-age population in any given year. Clean hands and plenty of tissues have worked for our friend Elizabeth, who is rarely sick--despite what the school nurse...