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...been set with a fraying yellow tablecloth and dime-store English china. Around him are a dozen officials and cronies, in suits and ties or military fatigues, who are joining his nightly communal meal. Various peace awards are scattered on shelves in Arafat's inner sanctum, looking more like dust collectors than trophies. On the wall are framed pictures of Palestinians who have died fighting and a satellite map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...speaking as a parent? My kids learn to do the things they see me do. So I worry about the consequences of raising a generation that may never learn through observation that the best way to remove dust from carved chair legs is with a Q-Tip. More than dreading a world in which it is considered O.K. to leave globs of toothpaste to dry in the sink, I fear the repercussions of never learning to be accountable for your own mess. Call me paranoid, but I started to fear that children who never feel the need to make their...
...that is also why California Adventure may leave some hard-core Disneyland fans feeling like the fairy dust is spread a little thin. At about two-thirds the size of Disneyland, the new park will offer only 22 attractions, compared with Disneyland's 60. And none of them match the elaborate, blockbuster rides like Indiana Jones Adventure and Star Tours that have been such huge crowd pleasers in the older park--but can cost $100 million or more to build. Says Pressler: "There are lots of ways to tell compelling stories that don't necessarily require you to build...
...pages; $24) thanks to Canadian author Elizabeth Hays' deft variations on and additions to familiar themes. Two sisters, Lucinda, 17, and Norma Joyce Hardy, 8, fall in love with the older man who visits their father's farm in Saskatchewan during the 1930s to study local plants and Dust Bowl weather patterns. Maurice Dove ought to fall for the beautiful and virtuous Lucinda, who runs the household in place of her deceased mother, but it is Norma Joyce, plain and engagingly clever, who snares his attention over succeeding decades, never as husband but eventually as father of her child...
...that the dust has settled following Ariel Sharon's election, is there any sign of how the Palestinian Authority plans to respond to Israel's new leader...