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...fellow dog walker. Your co-worker. Perhaps these people are more important to your health and welfare than you realize. In her new book, Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter ... but Really Do (W.W. Norton), author Melinda Blau and Purdue psychology professor Karen Fingerman explore the meaning of these often overlooked ties. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Blau at her home in Northampton, Mass. (See TIME's list of the top 10 doctored photos...
...resurrected." In fact, some experts say, these reminders of childhood may be so appealing because that era was--at least until the boomers started raising their own kids--the most child-centered in history. "Industry and communities focused on these cherished progeny," notes Purdue University family-studies scholar Karen Fingerman. "Communities built schools to educate them, and toy companies generated trinkets to amuse them...
...past, says Karen Fingerman, a Purdue University psychologist, grandparents' typical roles were as family historians and keepers of rituals. "Today," she says, "grandparents tend to be healthier, society is less formal, and the passions transmitted can include modern, hip pastimes like biking, running and even flying planes...
Often the creators choose to take a sweetly mocking approach to the classic iconography, such as in “Batman Smells” written by “The King of Queens” vet Patton Oswalt and drawn by Bob Fingerman. The story elucidates a possible scenario behind the familiar rhyme “Jingle bells/ Batman smells/ Robin laid an egg/ Batmobile lost its wheel/ Joker got away.” The pleasure of this story is that it is funny, original, and totally accessible for younger audiences and non-readers, while still filled with familiarities...
...Bush's relationship with his God should be a private matter, not one that dictates national and international policy." BOB FINGERMAN New York City...