Word: grandpa
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...parents and rarely tops 40 or 50 dollars. The upshot of all this is that you can IM your blockmate in the next room (“Dinner?” “sure.”) or your lab partner in the Quad at liberty, and call Grandpa Max in Wichita (provided it’s a weekend or after 8 p.m.) and never have to worry about how much it costs...
...live in a diverse community. Surely there are international students reading this article and noting that their Grandpa doesn’t live in Wichita; he lives in Shanghai, and it costs something like a dollar a minute to call there from most cell phones. There may even be some reading this who can’t call their families at all, because their families live in a developing country where they don’t have a telephone—they use a shared one in their town, because telephone wiring is too expensive to run it the last...
Living 3,000 miles apart means that this grandmother and her grandsons don't have to deal with day-to-day, in-your-face religious differences. During a recent visit to the West Coast, however, Mann heard her 10year-old grandson ask, "Is Grandpa Catholic?" No, she explained, he's Jewish. "I'm Catholic, and I'm going to stay that way," the boy replied. Mann wasn't worried. "He was simply making a statement," she says. "It wasn't self-righteous or malicious, just a statement about...
...present day, the bulk of "The Death Ray" flashes back to the mid seventies when Andy attended high school and first found his powers. Like Spider-Man's alter ego Peter Parker, Andy's immediate family are all dead so he lives with an elderly relative, his grandpa, "Pappy." Unlike Peter Parker, though, he doesn't even have enough personality as a nerd to register with anyone except Louis, a whiny, hostile ego maniac ("Meeting me was the best thing that ever happened to you") with a shaggy, Prince Valiant-style...
...dough? Well, the dough is cool, but I don't want to be 85 years old and have my grandkids go, 'Ewwww. Grandpa did some dumb s___.' I'd rather have them say, 'Wow, man, you're nuts...