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Even admirable attempts to address the stereotypes fall short--if only because a lot of people don't recognize satire. Apu on The Simpsons is a ludicrously drawn character, a heavily accented and mustachioed man who runs a Kwik-E Mart and offers guru-like advice to his befuddled friend Homer (when he is not making his own gauche mistakes). I don't think most Americans even recognize that The Simpsons uses Apu to mock American conceptions of South-Asian Americans...
...pens and paper. You even broke down and got your kids a few stylin' pairs of cargo pants, so you don't have to look at their long faces as they sullenly contemplate another nine-month jail term of homework. But before you walk out of Target or K Mart, consider a stop in the software aisle. The latest reference and productivity packs could actually help cheer up your kids in another way--by helping them get their homework done faster and better. Here are my top picks for students in junior high...
Anyone who believes there is "only one species of human on the planet" has never shopped at Wal-Mart. BETH WITHERELL Peoria...
Christopher George Kennedy 1963-present Helps run the family-owned Merchandise Mart in Chicago...
...contrast, the Kodak-Intel Picture CD is simple and fun. You drop off your 35-mm or APS film at a participating photo center (Walgreen's, Wal-mart, CVS, Target or Eckerd Drug, to name a few) and pay $10 or so more than you would for print-only processing. The Picture CD package you get back includes a contact sheet, a set of paper prints and a CD with digital renderings of your photos. Put the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive, and you'll see the images displayed in an interface that looks like a magazine...