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...also especially heartbreaking because it happened to Virgil Ware. A smart, skinny kid, the third of six children whose father and uncles worked in the nearby Docena coal mine, he had just entered the eighth grade at the all-black Sandusky Elementary School near his home in suburban Pratt City. An A student who played tight end on the football team, Virgil seemed the sibling "who was most likely to go to college," says brother Melvin, 54, a crane operator in Birmingham. "He wanted to be a lawyer. When we'd watch Perry Mason, Virgil'd always...
...fatherhood might soften the curmudgeonly host, who underwent quadruple-bypass surgery nearly four years ago. Or maybe not. "If you look at it this way," Letterman told the audience, "at 56, by the time the child has trouble in life ... I'll be long gone. By the time the kid's out stealing cars, Dad will be dead a few years." As for whether he and Lasko will marry, Letterman conceded, "We kind of got the cart before the horse here. But I'm just seeing how much I can get away with." Stay tuned for Top Ten uses...
...determination to transcend or ignore musical genres--made Cash's death last week, at 71, an event that provoked a serious sense of loss among people of all ages. Children of the '50s remember the startle of his first eminence: the one Southern star who was not a rebellious kid but a grownup with cavernous eyes and a voice to match. Kids of the '60s recall his pop hits, the TV show he was host of for two years and the easy alliances he formed with musicians beyond country's borders. The X and next generations know his old songs...
...planted cotton in the spring, and we picked it in the fall," says Merline Hall, 77, a childhood friend of the Cash children. "And you used your fingers. There were not any [mechanical] pickers back then. At least, none of us had one." She recalls John as "a good kid" who sang (while his mother Carrie played piano) at the Central Baptist Church. "It was not a false voice," says Hall. "How do you describe it? Let me just say that when he sang, he meant every word he sang. It was the Christian...
...Yahoo or Hotmail--to send pics. This 2-megapixel point-and-shoot ($180 at logitech.com is also the first of its line to have a full-color LCD screen for previewing shots. And it doubles as a webcam, complete with microphone. Furthermore, it's one of the most kid-friendly cameras around: in addition to the big buttons and curved edges, it's covered with floor-resistant rubber and durable plastic. --By Wilson Rothman