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...control the uncontrollable. The behavior of others, by definition, is uncontrollable, and all we can hope to govern is ourselves. What a cop-out, huh? Wouldn't it be nobler by far to fight the good fight with all the weapons available: a firm bass voice, a wagging finger, the Bible? After all, this teen-drinking business is serious. Just because I survived my 12-pack road trips and puke-a-thon proms doesn't mean my daughter will. That scares me. But parenthood in general scares me. Something else scares me too: the idea that if I skip...
...thinks about a moment a few months ago, before Everest, when he was walking down the street in Colorado with daughter Emma in a front pack. They were on their way to buy some banana bread for his wife, and Emma was pulling on his hand, her little fingers curled around his index finger. That was a summit too, he says. There are summits everywhere. You just have to know where to look...
...Some scientists blame climate change; others finger a mega-outbreak of disease. Still others subscribe to what Australian paleontologist Tim Flannery refers to as the "black-hole theory of extinction." In this case, as Flannery wryly explains in his just published ecological history of North America, The Eternal Frontier (Atlantic Monthly Press; $27.50), the black hole lay between the nose and chin of our Stone Age ancestors...
...idea began in Amsterdam at a hangout called the Supper Club, which features long beds for patrons to lounge on while eating finger food or grooving to a D.J. About two years ago, Miami's B.E.D. restaurant made its debut in South Beach, attracting celebrities from Oliver Stone to Matt Damon and holding events like Recovery Night, when staff members in hospital scrubs give massages and hand out vitamins. It didn't take long for Los Angeles to get hip to mattresses, as four places began offering different futon feeds...
...thinks about a moment a few months ago, before Everest, when he was walking down the street in Colorado with daughter Emma in a front pack. They were on their way to buy some banana bread for his wife, and Emma was pulling on his hand, her little fingers curled around his index finger. That was a summit too, he says. There are summits everywhere. You just have to know where to look...