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That's because the city and the park are looking more like each other every day. The heart of Disney World is Main Street U.S.A. -- constructed, at the creator's specifications, so that the buildings are subtly miniaturized. "This costs more," Walt Disney said, "but made the street a toy, and the imagination can play more freely with a toy. Besides, people like to think their world is somehow more grown up than Papa's was." Now architect Andres Duany wants to bring a residential equivalent of Main Street to eastern Orange County. His proposal is named Avalon Park...
...Some social scientists worry about something they call technological inequity, a condition in which youngsters at richer schools get all the advanced computer gadgetry and kids at poorer institutions go without. Others are less concerned about the distribution of hardware than about the distribution of good instruction. Tom Snyder, creator of a series of popular educational games, is worried that "in the year 2000 poor, black inner-city kids are going to be taught by computers, while the rich white kids in the suburbs will get human teachers...
...most ways, it was a conservative series, adhering to the conventions of series drama. But even in Dallas' debut, creator David Jacobs offered beguiling variations: a dozen wealthy Texans living, fighting, snarling under one ranch-house roof, a catalog of venality that included every vice but coprophilia and a leading character (J.R.) with the morals of a mink. In its second season, Dallas became a cliffhanger, and viewers hung on. By the 1979-80 season, it was the sixth most popular show on American TV, and for the next five years, it finished either first or second...
...Plato first observed that "astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Grunwald offers no final answers, but her chart of genius in extremis is witty and sympathetic. In The Theory of Everything, Alexander has come up with an extraordinary insight. His creator has kept pace. She has produced that rarest of all items in the VCR age: an authentic philosophical novel...
...human race existed before governments; perhaps it will exist long afterwards. While the state has given us many advantages, it has not granted us our lives. The Declaration of Independence quite rightly claims that people are "endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights"--life coming first and foremost...