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...vice-presidential decision," Bush urged in a TIME interview three weeks ago. "That will tell all." To the Vice President, the selection of Quayle, 41, a blond, boyish, baby-boom, back-bench Senator from Indiana, represented a bold leap across generational boundaries. Bush, it seemed, had looked in the mirror and found what was most needed in the second-banana role that he had played for eight years: a younger version of himself. Quayle radiates the same bumptious enthusiasm, the same uncritical loyalty, the same palpable gratitude and the same malleable mind-set that Bush brought to the G.O.P. ticket...
...Japanese, the character that represents the numeral -- two vertical lines widening toward the bottom -- indicates suehirogari, or increasing prosperity. So does Mount Fuji, whose graceful slopes mirror the character. To observe the once-in-a-century day, nearly 1,000 Japanese climbers gathered at the top of Fuji in the early-morning hours of the 8th. They erected a cairn at the crest with 216 stones collected from mountains whose names include the word fuji, such as Kofuji or Rishirifuji. At 8:08 the last stone was placed by an eight-year-old boy, Akinori Yasuda. His birthday...
Larry wants his kids' upbringing to mirror his own. "I try to work with my boys to revert them back to my childhood," he says. "When I was small, I ran in the mountains. We went into the creeks and dammed up a swimming hole. I try to get them to relate to nature themselves. Try to show them there are other things out there than alcohol and drugs. David, he is respondin' real well, fishin' and huntin'. A lot of parents, they say they want to raise children different than the way they themselves were raised. I'm proud...
...innocence than in recent generations. The problem is not so much that children have changed. The world has changed. Writes Dr. Robert Coles, a psychiatrist and author who has studied the lives of the young for more than 30 years: "Children have always been, and still are, a mirror to us -- ourselves writ small." Ourselves have changed...
...Dark Mirror...