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...this the year of the grease monkey? Auto racing claims 70 million fans in the U.S. NASCAR sells $2 billion in merchandise a year (on tap: NASCAR-branded bikinis). And the sport isn't just a Middle America mania. It's inspiring movies and becoming part of the lifestyle of the rich and famous. Here's a look at some stars who feel the need for speed...
...online cult following - a comprehensive breakdown of the film's extensive fan universe can be found on its own, lengthy Wikipedia page - the more Snakes web sites have gone up. Here are a dozen sites that together give you a feeling for just how widespread Snakes on a Plane mania has become...
There is, not surprisingly, partisan division over the dropout problem. Liberals say dropouts are either a by-product of testing mania or an unavoidable result of public schools' being starved for funding. But more conservative reform advocates, like Marcus Winters, a senior research associate at the Manhattan Institute, disagree. "Spending more money just has not worked," he says. "We've doubled the amount we spend per pupil since the '70s, and the problem hasn't budged...
...film's success, in many airings since its January debut, has led Disney to retool it as a stage musical that will be licensed for local productions, beginning this fall. More important, the HSM mania may mark a torch-passing from one generation to the next. Puberty is suddenly geriatric; for marketers, tweens are the new teens. Entertainment entrepreneurs have realized the truth of a maxim as pertinent to education as to commerce: Get them while they're young, when they can be instilled with values, not simply reinforced with prejudices...
...overseas mission trips to spread the Word. Buckets were circulated and more than $90,000 was collected to get them on their way. The next stops on the tour are Detroit, April 7 and 8, and Philadelphia, May 12-13. If some teens can't make it, Teen Mania has managed to tap one particularly popular aspect of modern culture. It just launched the website battlecry.com, described as "MySpace with God in the middle...