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None of us can really know the dynamic of the Heenes or how eager Richard's wife and children were to serve his scientainment ambitions. The kids seemed to take to their Wife Swap appearance with foulmouthed gusto. But that doesn't make turning their lives into TV a better idea or make exploiting them in a publicity scheme any less odious. If your kid is puking on the Today show while you keep talking to Meredith Vieira, it's a good sign you've screwed...
...like the Gosselins before them, we're seeing a new kind of show-biz family, a sort of reality-era von Trapps, for whom living in public is a given and privacy negotiable. We can expect to see only more of this in the future. People have got to make a living, after all, and families pull together. They do it for one another. They do it for the show...
...remarked. That the assault on Omaha succeeded is due partly to shelling from nearby destroyers but mostly to the courage and determination of the infantry. That's one of the lessons of Antony Beevor's glorious, horrifying D-Day (Viking; 592 pages): the purpose of valor is usually to make up for somebody else's stupidity. (See TIME's photo-essay "Faces...
...tidbits like this, who needs flashbacks to ticker-tape parades? But both romances are bloodless. Even when Earhart breaks up with Vidal (which she may not have done in real life), it's about as heated as a tussle over the last cucumber sandwich. The movie insists that Earhart make peace with her marriage before going off to die, as if we wouldn't be able to mourn the demise of an active adulterer. Even this most unconventional of heroines has to be conventional in the end. (See TIME's photo-essay "Oscar's Youngest Best Actress Nominees...
...history of mail from cuneiform tablets to the Pony Express to Gmail, Freeman traces how far the epistolary form has come--and lays out a case for why we should take a step back. E-mail might be cheaper, faster and more convenient, but its virtues also make us lazier, lonelier and less articulate. The author's solution: Go easy on that inbox. Don't read e-mails over breakfast or in bed. And think twice before hitting that send button. "This is not the manifesto of a Luddite," Freeman insists, but of a humanitarian. Because, as he observes...