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...working, Page spends his time staying fit (his latest passion is windsurfing) and playing with gadgets, like his new TiVo-type radio device. He's into music (he attended a recent U2 concert in Oakland) but has mostly given up the saxophone he played as a kid. Compared with Brin, Page is probably a deeper thinker and bigger nerd. I saw him preparing his keynote speech for the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas--the geek-world equivalent of the Super Bowl--nearly a month before it took place. (He ended up bringing Robin Williams onstage with him; Williams...
...meantime, doctors who prescribe these drugs are left to contend with jittery patients and their parents. "Are we now supposed to do regular EKG's on every kid on Ritalin?" asks Dr. Gabrielle Carlson, a child psychiatrist at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. "What on earth is the poor consumer...
...only person who ever cared about both sides and did something about it was a Harvard kid,” says Cublunk, in an interview...
Still, Rob Light, head of music and a managing partner at Creative Artists Agency, has no doubt that other producers will try to emulate Jamarama. "When I was a kid, my parents would say, 'Run outside and play with your friends. I'll see you in four or five hours,'" he says. "That doesn't happen anymore in America. We've become a society that has to create environments in which kids can play." They certainly play hard at Jamarama, running from one sponsor-branded activity to another in the lobby and dancing in the aisles. "By the time...
...sounds like a kid at heart, he is. A science-fiction fan, he has all the tapes of the original Battlestar Galactica TV show from the '70s. In Iraq, he used his reputation as an auto mechanic to play practical jokes on the unsuspecting. "I'd tell 'em to go get a flux capacitor," he says, laughing that his Guard buddies didn't catch the Back to the Future reference. His favorite game remains Warhammer, a tabletop battlefield game in which real-world strategies are played out with miniature soldiers. He builds his own figures, mixing Warhammer components, like...