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Then Fu pauses, runs her hand through her streaked hair and grins. "Besides, if people are going to remember me, I don't want it to be with that silly old hairstyle." When a grownup Fu Mingxia takes to the board in Sydney, she'll be ready to show everyone who she is: mettle, grace and a stylish...
Just a couple of years ago, R.L. Stine was the most popular children's author in publishing history. He sometimes received 2,000 letters a week from his readers, and young fans mobbed his appearances at bookstores, eager to glimpse the scary grownup, dressed all in black, who churned out monthly novels for creepy series called Goosebumps (aimed at readers 8 to 12) and Fear Street (10 to 14), which in turn led to scads of merchandising goodies, a hit kids' TV show on the Fox network and an exhibit at Disney World...
...Sympathetic to Bush: The choice plays the generational theme with subtlety. Cheney, an unflashy choice, is, first of all, a grownup. He adds maturity to the Republican ticket without making George W. Bush himself seem immature. (If W. does not seem an entirely persuasive grownup himself, by the way, it is startling to remember that , at 54, he is more than a decade older than John Kennedy was in 1960). Cheney signs on as a slightly older retainer, but not as a father figure - he's only 59 - who might make the presidential candidate seem callow. He is what...
...McSweeney's www.mcsweeneys.net) More recently, old media have tried to get Blair Witch-y with sites like Time Warner's Entertaindom www.entertaindom.com) whose flashy but lame Hollywood spoofs prove the rule that online humor is funny in inverse proportion to its budget. And even in the Web's grownup days of corporate sites and e-commerce, a pair of scrappy newcomers is continuing the tradition of wicked pop-culture satire online...
Every adult remembers where he was when he learned that Bambi's mom had been shot by a lone gunman. For many of us, it was an emotional rite of passage. We clutched a grownup's hand in the darkened theater. But imagine watching Bambi or Beauty and the Beast on video, not as a seven-year-old but at four, and without a parent present to explain the law of the cartoon jungle. Kids ages two to five spend an average of 1 1/2 hours watching videos each day, yet children up to age five need adult help...