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...repeat shopping. Oh yes, and this summer, The Fort would have its own movie. The Fort Movie would star someone just a little bit too old and too good-looking to be playing in a fake fort, who manages to save the world despite the bumbling of some idiotic grown-ups who don't understand the true power of the fort. The inevitably successful Fort Movie would spawn Fort Movie II: The Sleeping Bag of Secrets, with a bigger special effects budget and fun new sidekick, The Cardboard...
...Angi felt something was missing in her daughter's life. Annalisee, whose three siblings are grown, didn't have a rich social network of other kids. By 13, she had moved beyond her mother's ability to meaningfully teach her. The family talked about sending her to college, but everyone was hesitant. Annalisee needed to mature socially. By the time I met her in February, she had been having trouble getting along with others. "People are, I must admit it, a lot of times intimidated by me," she told me; modesty isn't among her many talents. She described herself...
...doctorates--more than ever during the 50 years NORC has gathered the data. But the rate of increase in the number of U.S. doctorates has fallen dramatically since 1970, when it hit nearly 15% for the year; for more than a decade, the number of doctorates has grown less than 3.5% a year. The staggering late-1960s growth in Ph.D.s followed a period of increased attention on gifted kids after Sputnik. Now we're coasting...
...call Glen Eagle, he showed me his red Ferrari, his private theater and the two 32-ft. totem poles just inside the entry. They are made from cedar at least 750 years old and feature carvings of the Davidsons and their three kids, who are now grown. Bob sees his work for the gifted as akin to the patronage that sustained the artists and inventors of the Renaissance. His view of giftedness is expressed through simple analogies: Educators often "want people to have equal results. But that's not likely in our world. You know, I would love...
...pretty rich baritone. It's kind of great. I must be one of the few people he sang to, and it's an honor," he says. Efron's also in talks to remake Footloose as well as make a movie called Seventeen, in which a grown-up gets stuck inside a teenager's body due to, I'm guessing, an accident involving electricity...