Word: grampa
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Ever seen that Simpsons episode--the one where Homer goes to his class reunion and Grampa Simpson gets a job writing cartoons? Me neither. As far as I know, it's the only episode in the entire series I haven't seen, and it's driving me nuts. True, The Simpsons is on about every 15 minutes, but there's only so much TV one man can watch. Or is there? The digital video recorder is changing all that...
...across like the sullen kids' table at the Woodstock reunion. (So enough about the baby boom, Gen X: What do you think of the baby boom?) It's hard to believe Kennedy was addressing them when he declared, "Today, our generation faces its own New Frontier." Um, our generation, Grampa...
This spring I got that opportunity. Along with a rotating crew of two dozen TIME writers and reporters, I took a two-week trip down the river on the Grampa Woo III, a delightful chartered boat with a very flexible captain, Dana Kollars, who was able to dock or anchor to suit our reporting needs. We made 40 or so stops along the way, some planned and others serendipitous, listening to the issues people were discussing and searching for stories that showed how our nation is coping at the start of a new century. Then we dispatched reporters...