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...this is about more than mere money. Theorizes H. Stephen Glenn, co-author of Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: the parents of boomers were too busy surviving--trying to provide a secure, comfortable home--for them to notice whether their children were content all the time. "So our generation wants our children to feel good because that is what we lacked." No matter how strapped they are themselves, boomer parents don't want their twentysomething or even thirtysomething offspring to feel bad because they can't pay a bill, take a trip or buy that purebred...
...Glenn Parker...
...cell phone brings. So Shafransky, who is studying to become a psychotherapist at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, Calif., takes a rather odd precaution while talking. "I always switch the phone from one side of my head to the other, so I can equalize the radiation," she says. Glenn Wilson, a truck driver in Oak Park, Ill., is worried about cell-phone radiation too. He uses a hands-free headset to divert radio waves away from his brain. "I try not to put it by my head anymore," Wilson says. "The headset is always with...
Guess whose brother just happens to be in the Himalayan neighborhood, eager to save the sister who has not forgiven him for Dad's death? Now try to guess why Scott Glenn signed on to play the shaggy, half-mad old man of the mountains honchoing the rescue. It is the year's most ludicrous character part in what is likely the year's most ludicrous action movie...
Behind the loosey-goosey exterior, Glenn was something of a perfectionist, and found himself growing fascinated not just with learning the art of casting but also with refining it, creating molds that grew more and more intricate and had fewer and fewer flaws--precisely the kind of near-zero-tolerance quality needed in industrial manufacturing. When Alan approached Glenn in 1985 and asked for his help, both brothers figured the collaboration would be a good one. "We started doing together what we'd been doing separately," Glenn says, "me the processes, Alan the materials...