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...survive a trip to Disney World. The magazine even sneaks in a cooking column. But Dads is bigger, in stories and ads, on SUVs, watches and sports apparel than on diapers and baby equipment. Dads and Dadmag.com an unrelated online fathering magazine, also favor the sports hero as parental role model, with cover stories on Cal Ripken and Bo Jackson, and a regular column written by Boomer Esiason. Helpful parenting websites with solid dad components--but a bit less testosterone--include father.com slowlane.com and familyeducation.com...
...many points (1,760), or taken home so rich a trove of medals during her career (17, including 13 gold). Such records led Edwards' hometown of Cairo, Ga., to name a street in her honor--not far from the one that celebrates Jackie Robinson, Cairo's other local hero...
...crew cut, a strangulated tenor and a way of forcing parables of antisocial behavior (e.g., incest) into jolly rhyme schemes ("I'd rather marry a duck-billed pledipus/ Than end up like old Oedipus/ Rex"). For a few years, on albums and in concerts, Lehrer was a comedy hero to the intelligentsia and other lonely people. He surfaced briefly to write songs for the TV shows That Was the Week That Was (no one, not even those who tried, can forget National Brotherhood Week) and The Electric Company (kids hummed Silent E for minutes on end), then retreated...
...universe is ruled by Drej, translucent, electric-blue beings of pure energy and malefic power. The lowest form of life is the human, including our hero Cale (voiced by Matt Damon), who has a lousy job sawing the edges off bulky space trawlers. Guess what? Cale has a great destiny in store once he hooks up with his dead dad's pal--tough, hard-to-read Korso (Bill Pullman)--and an intergalactic crew of comic villains, saintly mutants and the requisite feisty babe (Drew Barrymore...
Jeff Bridges got zapped into it in TRON. Keanu Reeves reached it by means of a red pill in The Matrix. In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash--a cult classic in Silicon Valley--our hero, Hiro Protagonist, goes there wearing goggles and a pair of virtual-reality gloves. It's where I expect to be spending my evenings in the twilight of my life, without ever leaving the comfort of my sofa. And--who knows?--maybe I'll meet you there...