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That's not to say you should avoid the theme parks entirely. They are, after all, the spectacles that make this place unique. After checking in to one of the more grownup hotels--the so-new-it-smells-like-paint Westin Imagine has a barman, Kyle McCann, who does masterly things with flavored vodka--go ahead and submit to Disney World. Skip the main park and head for Animal Kingdom ($75). Cynics will argue, correctly, that the park's Kilimanjaro Safaris are merely rides around a large zoo. But this zoo has no walls, and you see it from...
...with Jayson Blair at the Times), Carr sets out to "report" his memoir, which is to say he digs up his medical and police files and conducts some 60 interviews with people who knew him then and know him now, from his parents to his rehab counselors to his grownup twin daughters. Wary of painting a distorted self-portrait, he offers up a researched composite instead...
...anyway? Adults are always trying to find out what kids are up to, replicate it, and then sell it back to them. The kids like rap? Let's give them Vanilla Ice! Usually the youth-oriented products that adults come up with are all too obviously a grownup's conception of what a young person wants. The suits are, after all, suits. Getting a handle on youthful culture is like trying to hold onto one's adolescence. It slips away -- it's meant...
Most recently she was leading life as a grownup, working for an insurance company and making plans to study psychology in grad school. But many remember Vicki Van Meter as the brave sixth-grader beaming from the cockpit of her single-engine Cessna 172--the kid who in 1993 became the youngest girl to fly across the U.S. and, later, across the Atlantic to Scotland. Van Meter, who spent two years in Moldova in the Peace Corps, suffered from depression and died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound...
...were displayed in the window of his new shop, was about luring these coveted new luxury aficionados into Armani's universe. All around the world, designers and luxury executives are jockeying to appeal to the millennial generation. (Gen Y, Nexters, Boomlets: call them what you want?they're the grownup babies of baby boomers.) From Burberry's advertising campaign featuring London It girls like Agyness Deyn to Karl Lagerfeld's recent Chanel Couture show starring the miniskirt and flats?a look only a 14-year-old could pull off on a good day?youth is being served. These millennials...