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...wide-eyed look on the face of my young brother--a child who still believes he will hear during the night "the prancing and pawing of each little hoof" when Santa's sleigh clatters across the roof. My expression is different. I am snagged on the outer edge of childhood--old enough to know there is no Santa Claus and clearly already practicing that disdainful attitude which, in a few more years, I would turn into an art form. You can imagine my father reading the story in a fresh, expressive cadence, the way parents do even though they have...
ENGAGED. LINDA TRIPP, 52, former Pentagon employee who blew the whistle on President Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; to her childhood sweetheart, architect Dieter Rousch. Tripp, who is divorced, recently won $595,000 in a lawsuit against the Defense Department for releasing confidential personal information about her to the New Yorker...
...about Meghan C. Howard ’04, the student who was recently threatened with administrative action by the University for unfurling a Tibetan flag and telling Wen that Tibet belongs to the Tibetans. My blonde-haired roommate from upstate New York has been a devout Tibetan Buddhist since childhood. One night at the dinner table sophomore year, she noticed some peculiar deposits on the mixed greens in her salad, which she recognized as caterpillar eggs. Instead of throwing them away as you or I would have done, she cared for them until they hatched into little green caterpillars, then...
...zebrafish looks like any other run of the mill aquarium-inhabitant—a small, glittery swimmer suited to the fishbowl world of a childhood pet. But to Gund Professor of Neuroscience John E. Dowling, this fish represents a living window into the complex interactions between vision and the brain...
...children. Recently he declared, “If there were no children on this earth, if someone announced all kids were dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately.” Makes sense, right? To Michael Jackson, the adult world is a jungle. The innocence of childhood is his only respite from bloodthirsty tabloid reporters and, frankly, from us. We are those slack-jawed onlookers who buy into the tabloids and exposes. We eat up his records one day and crucify him the next...