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...Malley household. About now, perhaps as you're reading this, my wife Nancy and I are in the van heading north on I-95 with our three children (ages 3 to 10) on our annual trek to Grandma's house in New Jersey--a kiddie cosmos away from our home in South Florida. And we won't stop there. Gluttons for punishment...er, family togetherness, we'll soon leave Grandma's and head for the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the rocky coast of Maine. And we love it. Except for the parts...
...theater. With a TV and VCR perched above the roomy passenger area, the stage is set to keep our crew merrily mesmerized for hours. It's rare that you can pick up a decent TV signal in a moving vehicle, but videos look as clear as they do at home. That's probably a good thing, since we're necessarily in full control of what they watch. We supplement a small library of store-bought videos (including a few never-before-seen titles to ensure maximum attention) with movies and programs recorded from TV. This year, prior to departure...
...Streamline -- founded in 1993 by, among others, trend guru Faith Popcorn -- offers a service so simple and seductive, it's a wonder they're the first ones to think of it. When you sign up for Streamline, the company dispatches a special team to your home armed with bar code scanners to help you come up with what they call a PSL ? a Personal Shopping List that enumerates all the products that you regularly bring into your home. And that's not just groceries ? it includes video rentals, dry cleaning, postage stamps, even the photos from your latest trip abroad...
...Mark McGwire over Sammy Sosa, 70-66, for the new home-run crown at the end of the best baseball season in memory
BABE RUTH In sports' first golden age, there was Babe Ruth--and then there was everyone else. In 1920, only his second season as an everyday player, he hit 54 home runs--more than any entire team in the American League. Within a few years, his assault on distant fences had bent baseball into a new and thrilling shape. His appetites were as prodigious as his home runs, his affinity for the crowd and the camera seemingly part of his dna. By the time he retired in 1935, Ruth had become, in the words of sportswriter Jimmy Cannon, "a national...