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...heart from its opening credits, scored to an unusually soupy Tom Waits ballad. It builds with its closeups of three attractive youngsters and the mostly helpful adults around them. But the film isn't pushy; it doesn't manipulate feelings so much as caress, massage them, allow them to grow naturally, and them challenge them, in the mind and heart of the sympathetic viewer...
...look now, the bill has a good shot. By the end of last week, 200 members of the House--nearly half--had signed on as co-sponsors to the legislation authored by Delaware Republican Mike Castle and Colorado Democrat Diana DeGette. And the number of supporters is expected to grow when it is put to a vote. Predictions are that as many as 50 Republicans could join Democrats in favor of it. While the legislation presents Republican moderates a rare opportunity for victory on Capitol Hill, it has also attracted the interest and support of some conservatives who say they...
...Allard had to solve was what the new Xbox would look like. It's not a trivial question. The old Xbox is large and forbidding, a matte black and poisonous green plastic crate the size of a VCR. Perfect for hard-core gamers, maybe, but if Microsoft wanted to grow its audience, Allard knew the new Xbox had to look kinder and gentler. The goal was a design that was welcoming but not wimpy, that snagged the soccer moms and NASCAR dads and Britney girls--without losing the Halo boys...
...VIRUS VACCINE] ENDED WHEN FIVE-YEAR-OLD JERYL LYNN HILLEMAN CAME DOWN WITH MUMPS. Jeryl Lynn is the daughter of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, head of the virology team at Merck Sharp & Dohme Institute for Therapeutic Research, which had been hunting for years for a mumps virus that would grow well in the lab and lose its virulence, while still retaining its power to give immunity ... Jeryl Lynn's virus was just what [the team] wanted. Now made into a vaccine, it has already been given to more than 500 youngsters in the Philadelphia area. The children developed no fever...
...enormous changes for the better over the years. Nowadays people are much friendlier and more willing to communicate. South Africans of all colors mingle in restaurants and movie houses and on buses and trains. Black kids dress and behave like any other youngsters. If children go to school and grow up together regardless of race, they will be able to stay friends for life and better understand other cultures. Vanna Taddeucci Florence My compliments on your excellent article about the subtle racism that still divides South African society. That may worsen in our second decade of democracy, as the idealists...