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...connecting the digital world to the one we actually live in. The firm has attempted this with several projects, and perhaps its purest piece of digi-tecture is the Guggenheim Virtual Museum: an Internet-only gallery that would enable art lovers anywhere to swoop through interlocking coils and interact with the Guggenheim's collection of digital art. "Would," that is, because the museum, in a funding crunch, has yet to put up the website for public viewing...
PLAYMATES BABY BRIGHT EYES At first blush, she seems rather ordinary. But look again. This doll ($50; due this fall) has azure blue oversize eyes that blink, sweep the room and interact with your child. NanoMuscle technology silently powers the robotic eyes to eerie effect. The spinoff possibilities are tantalizing: Chucky lives...
...real name not be used.) Seeking a way to help her son out of his growing isolation, Alexander's mother sent him to Peer Play Groups, a New York City-based program that works with children who are socially awkward. In weekly, one-hour sessions, Alexander learned ways to interact with kids his own age. "They taught me how to have fun, how to talk with other people at school," he says. "Now I'm not so quiet anymore...
Perhaps the biggest advantage the groups offer is the all important feeling of not being alone. Experts say this sense of belonging makes it easier for socially unskilled kids to interact confidently with others. "They feel safe trying out strategies in the groups, where they are totally accepted," says FriendSmarts' Strock. "It then makes it easier to test the skills outside." The most useful advice often comes not from an authoritative therapist but from the other kids. For John, a 10th-grader from San Jose, Calif., who was incessantly bullied in middle school, sharing stories and strategies with groupmates...
...Hill, I have had the wonderful opportunity to interact with rising journalists, write articles that got published regularly and observe lawmakers at work. The paper has a print circulation of 21,000—the largest on Capitol Hill. But for all its impressive qualities, all of its contributing columnists are male. The paper has covered a wide variety of issues on its op-ed pages, ranging from the debacle of Iraq and the weak economy to the phenomenon of Howard Dean. But female bylines are scarce—a situation common to newspapers across the nation...