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...hours searching the Web for a lively explanation of electricity that his son could understand. "Finally I found a very nice, animated, educational website showing electrons zooming around and tests after each section. We did this for about an hour and a half and had a ball--a great father-son moment of learning. All of a sudden we ran out of runway because it was a site to help welders, and it then got into welding." For McNealy the experience, three years ago, provided one of life's aha! moments: "It made me wonder why there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Movies aren't banished straight to video because they're bad. A reasonably smart marketing exec with a splicing machine and a decent song can make a huge profit out of bad. If some guy at home could cut together that YouTube trailer where The Shining is a touching father-son comedy, then the Fox marketing division can make Date Movie look good in a 30-sec. TV spot. That's why studio marketers are better at hoodwinking the customer than those two guys Huck and Jim picked up on the river. The biggest sin a director can commit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Dude, Where's My Film? | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...Juan Adams y su hijo Juan Q." GEORGE W. BUSH, to immigrants in Nebraska preparing for a citizenship exam, explaining in Spanish that another father-son pair of Presidents preceded his dad and him: John Adams and his son John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 19, 2006 | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

Actually, not all of Batali's cookware looks great--his new plastic cutting boards feel as flimsy as Frisbees--but all of it looks different. That's because Batali's design team includes Sam and John Farber, the legendary father-son duo that founded OXO International, which makes those chunky, black Good Grips products that are some of the best-selling kitchen tools in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Mario! | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...Tellin' dirty lie-yies to my friends. / But my own father / Said, 'Give her up, don't bother. / The world isn't coming to an end. He said: 'Walk like a man. Talk like a man. / Walk like a man, my son / No woman's worth crawling on the earth, / So walk like a man, my son.'" This father-son speech teaches the lad that turnabout is fair play: "I'll tell the world, / 'Forget about it, girl,' / And walk like a man from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falsetto Meets "The Sopranos" | 11/25/2005 | See Source »

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