Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably doesn't ring a bell. That was the intent of his parents--Jane Fonda and current California state senator TOM HAYDEN--when they gave it to him. As a fame shield, it didn't work too well. On one of his first days at school, he says, a kid came up to him and said, "Guess what? Jane Fonda's son is here!" Garity's anonymity will be further shattered when he appears as his dad in the film Abbie!, based on the life of Abbie Hoffman. Has his dad sucked up to him to get Garity to make...
...also got a lot to remember when you're responsible for a whole country. Sosa shined shoes as a kid to help pay for the two-room apartment he lived in with his widowed mom and six siblings in the Dominican Republic. When a major league representative saw him play, he thought Sosa was amazingly talented and a little malnourished. But since he became a professional ballplayer nine years ago, he has funneled money south. He has lavished three houses on his mother, bought businesses for his sisters, sent computers to schools, donated ambulances to hospitals, handed out so many...
Ouchless injections? Last week Astra Pharmaceutical introduced a skin patch that numbs a kid's skin by delivering local anesthetic directly to the injection site. Called Emla and available by prescription only, it can be used on children as young as one month--and on needle-shy grownups. One downside: the patch must be applied at least an hour before visiting the doctor...
...Loop, a wolf opera set among haters of government and the Endangered Species Act in darkest Montana. She, this time out, is a wolf biologist, luscious but a doddering 29; he is a very young 18, the sensitive son of a bull-witted rancher. The kid learns fast: "He felt that her life was but the smallest flame that might be snuffed out if he were to let go of her," the author advises. The advice here is, Buy Kleenex stock...
That means dealing with the people in your lives, whether you love them, love them and they drive you nuts, hate them, or jut want them to go away. But I'd also like to talk about mundane problems like what to do about that strange kid who always initiates conversation with you on the shuttle back to the Quad...