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Smallville is the story of a teen Clark Kent (Tom Welling) before he becomes Superman. Twelve years ago (the story has been moved to the present, the better to work current music into the soundtrack), Clark's parents found him wandering naked amid the wreckage of a spaceship in a Kansas cornfield, a fact they have hidden from him. Clark knows he is unnaturally strong--his dad won't let him play football lest he hurt someone--but forced to hide his powers, he's considered a nerd at school. There is a lot of corn in Smallville, Kans...
...blessings from Sept. 11 should be cherished, as the Marisa family knows. Shortly before 9 a.m., Kurt Marisa, 42, called his dad Rudy to ask if he had heard from Kurt's brother Kent, who worked in the American Express building across from the Trade Center. Rudy said Kent was fine, so Kurt returned to his duties--at the Pentagon. Within minutes, of course, a second plane would crash into the south tower; a third would hit the Pentagon. Now Rudy and his wife Jacquelyn couldn't reach either son. Rudy, a basketball coach, gamed out grim odds. "There...
...people around to shoulder the cost of supporting their generational forebears) but also could cause a growing schism between parents and nonparents about how government money for social services is allocated. "It's an explosion waiting to happen," says Frank Furedi, a reader in sociology at the University of Kent, who is researching a book that, among other things, will explore the growing resentment childless couples have over what they see as preferential treatment for their child-rearing counterparts. It's a book that will surely find a ready audience in people like Tanya Lina. "Having a child...
...forms of family life, they must be prepared to pay for them in the form of child care and tax allowances - for both married and unmarried parents. "A lot of pressure could be taken off the mothers and fathers if there was better child care," says the University of Kent's Furedi. "But that isn't happening at the moment." He laments the situation in the U.K., which has the worst record in Europe for looking after preschool children, according to a recent survey by Britain's Daycare Trust. "We are going to end up like [those] societies in Spain...
...some of them are getting itchy. The same day, Kent Conrad and John Kerry (he of the 2004 presidential ambitions) raised the possibility of a cut in the payroll taxes that pay for Medicare and Social Security (tied, of course, to a rollback of the future phases of Bush's tax cut). The downside, of course, is that it'll be a little tough to rail against Bush for dipping into Social Security when they're proposing to cut into the very tax revenues that fill the Fund's coffers. Not exactly what the pollster ordered...