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...Hanging with the Heroes,” the name of Disney’s block of hero cartoon shows, is the perfect escape for the burnt-out college student. The medium of animation allows for imaginative freedom from reality. Aladdin elicits the help of a genie and a magic carpet to outwit murderous mud monsters. A young Hercules battles giant spiders and multiple-headed lions. Kim takes down colossal robots and magma guns...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Hanging with Heroes | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

First, there is always a time and place for comic relief—especially in the heat of battle, when you need a little laugh the most. Second, sometimes being a hero can simply come from doing the right thing—although it often involves slaying a fire-breathing dragon as well...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Hanging with Heroes | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...Hero cartoons provide excitement and adventure and offer an escape from everyday life. But they also teach the beauty of living in the real world—we do not always have to be successful and defeat our enemies. And while we may hope to spend our lives doing good for the world, we shouldn’t demand it from ourselves all the time. While Aladdin, Hercules and Kim must spend every half hour righting wrongs, overcoming burdens and saving the world, we can take thirty minutes off to watch them...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Hanging with Heroes | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...attacks, only to be laid off for no fault of his own. That's when he decides he'll win his job back (and simultaneously declare his affection for Zahir) by releasing a computer virus bearing her image. Like a pyromaniac who starts fires so he can be the hero who reports them, Mehta plans to inform his company how to stop the virus before things get out of hand. But his scheme goes seriously awry, to the discomfort of practically everyone on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poking Holes in the Net | 7/18/2004 | See Source »

...CHINA: A sars hero is detained by Beijing for his political views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complete list of articles | 7/13/2004 | See Source »

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