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Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003), a loosely autobiographical story of a girl growing up during the Iranian revolution, pushed its author into the front ranks of comic-book artists. Her follow-up, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (2004), solidified her position. Born in Iran, she lives in Paris, where she is busy on a number of fronts, including adapting Persepolis into an animated movie. In April, she will release a provocative nonfiction comic book, Embroideries, that explores the sex lives of Iranian women. Her career is flourishing, but she didn...
DIED. BRANDT STEELE, 97, pioneering psychiatrist who with pediatrician Henry Kempe coined the term battered-child syndrome in 1962; in Denver. The pair also first documented that parents who hurt children were often themselves childhood victims of abuse and neglect...
...parent. I mean, hell, why would I? There's so much fun to be had while you're young." He does have a point. Twixters have all the privileges of grownups now but only some of the responsibilities. From the point of view of the twixters, upstairs in their childhood bedrooms, snuggled up under their Star Wars comforters, it can look all downhill...
...warmer climes: 40 minutes outside of Reykjavik, Iceland, is the year-round, 39°C heat at the Blue Lagoon. Pumped from a geothermal source, it comes complete with silica mud for a do-it-yourself facial (tel: [354] 420 8800; www.bluelagoon.is). All in all, they sure beat those childhood swimming lessons at the local pool...
...your fondest video-game memories are of playing Pong in the 1970s or duking it out with Asteroids in the '80s, Atari has two new ways to help you recapture those childhood thrills. One is Atari Flashback, a $40 gaming console that plugs directly into your TV. The other is Atari Anthology, a disc of games for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox...