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...whale of a spectacle. A 300-lb. baby killer whale swam proudly with its brother and 5,000-lb. mom for the first time, after a SURPRISE BIRTH at San Diego's SeaWorld. The baby was born in front of 300 park employees. As the mother went into labor, a video team rushed to the scene and projected the birth live onto ShamuVision, a giant video screen. Scientific tests will soon determine the baby's sex and father...
...chimes. Take wealth, for instance, and all the delightful things that money can buy. Research by Diener, among others, has shown that once your basic needs are met, additional income does little to raise your sense of satisfaction with life (see story on page A32). A good education? Sorry, Mom and Dad, neither education nor, for that matter, a high IQ paves the road to happiness. Youth? No, again. In fact, older people are more consistently satisfied with their lives than the young. And they're less prone to dark moods: a recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control...
...reconvene for drinks when you're done. In the tasting room, three generations of Chinese families sit at tables, passing Tsingtao blond, dark and even green (the latter is made with spirulina) from grandparent to parent to child. A four-year-old downs his, smacks his lips, and challenges mom to a toast. Cries of "Ganbei! [Cheers!]" echo in the hall as faces flush and cigarettes are lit. Tourists from Japan, Taiwan and Korea eye one another, making prideful toasts. A table is accidentally tipped over, a pitcher smashes to pieces, and a janitor mops up. Then the next group...
Other parents believe that legislation goes too far. "I think people are smart enough to know whether their children should play these games or not," says Chicago mom Michelle Nolan, 37, who keeps her family's PlayStation 2 system in her bedroom so she and her husband can monitor what their children play. And, needless to say, most youngsters consider regulation unnecessary. Alex Spicer, 16, of Orinda, Calif., says that he plays video games for five hours at a time on weekends and that he and his friends stop only for bathroom breaks. He's a huge fan of Halo...
...Dallas mom Lori Bannon turned to another online school, Laurel Springs in Ojai, California. Bannon, who has a Harvard medical degree, didn't want to compromise the education of her daughter Lindsay, 13, an ?lite gymnast who spends eight hours a day in the gym. "Regular school was not an option," says Bannon, "but I wanted to make sure she could go back at grade level if she quit gymnastics." Laurel Springs' enrollment has increased 35% a year for the past four years, to 1,800 students. At least 25% are either athletes or child entertainers...