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...over 900,000 participating classrooms nationwide, with approximately 20 schools in Cambridge, according to the program’s Web site. While the program has existed for 22 years, it has begun to attract the attention of child health experts and parents concerned about the rise in childhood obesity and corporate sponsorship. But a Pizza Hut spokesman defended the program. “We are very proud of the program and since the recent criticism was launched we have received hundreds of e-mails from educators, parents and former Book It participants, all supporting the program,” spokesman...
...Asia is any indication, gaming addiction can extend far beyond childhood, and will soon require our direct attention. The South Korean government has had to fund more than 40 treatment programs that aim to deal with the huge problem of gaming and Internet addiction gripping its country. China too has been forced to deal with what it sees as an economic problem as well as a serious addiction. The government has decided to forcibly limit the playing hours of its more than 20 million daily gamers through a system of punishments within the virtual worlds themselves. Under a totalitarian regime...
...Movie’ disaster”—he pauses after referencing two comedies in which he’s recently starred—“I mean, scenario, it was a welcome change.”Penn also sees reflections in the film of his own childhood as an Indian-American in New Jersey. Although he says he didn’t face the same cultural expectations from his parents that Gogol does, he notes that he also experienced stereotyping.“Thanks to the genius of ‘The Simpsons?...
...ever told: Alexandra Palma, the results came back and you’re definitely not the mother of my child. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Alexandra Palma, the results came back and you’re the mother of my child. Favorite childhood toy: Hot Wheels. Sexiest physical trait: The Juggernut. Favorite part about Harvard: Teeming hordes of hot chicks. Describe yourself in three words: Elvis meets Shaft. In 15 minutes you are: Crasturbating. In 15 years you are: Crasturbating, but they won’t be tears...
...there's nothing effete about him. He's almost burnt by the sun, his hard hands calloused. He lost his father at the age of five and grew up hungry and poor. As the eldest child, he had to fend for the rest of his family. Of his childhood, he simply says, "I have no good memories." He has come into the city of Kandahar on a winter's day in late January to speak to a reporter but has to leave before night falls and the risks of capture increase. The interview is rushed...