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...answer. Tolman calls this the "authentic ask." My daughter's answer reflected her sense of style. But for many girls who want thongs, it may be pragmatism: What else works under tight low-rider jeans? I gave the O.K. to boyshorts at $8.50 a pair. She's delighted. "Mom," she said the other day, "you really ought to try them...
...Complete Far Side: 1980-1994 (Andrews McMeel; 1,245 pages). He spent three years perfecting it, redoing many of the eyeballs, unhappy with the way they were digitally transferred. Picking up the collection with pride, Larson says, "I just like to feel the weight. It's a 20-pounder, Mom! It can alternate as a murder weapon." He says there's not much profit in it for him, despite the fact that, as he says, at $135, it costs about one car payment. "It's just a very cool thing for a cartoonist to have. It's my death book...
Could cancer in a child be somehow linked to breast cancer in the mom? That's the strong implication of a study presented last week at the European Cancer Conference in Copenhagen. Tracing the medical histories of 2,600 mothers whose children developed various cancers before age 15, researchers discovered that breast cancer was diagnosed in 95 of the women--30% more than predicted. The earlier the kids got cancer, the greater the danger. Mothers of children who got sick before age 6 had a 50% greater-than-expected risk of getting breast cancer. The risk was higher...
Savvy teenagers like Ellen Knapek, 15, a sophomore at Ursuline Academy in Dallas, tend not to buy a ready-made decor from just one vendor. They like to shop around. When her mom remarried in August, Ellen got a new room as part of the deal. "Mom told me I could do whatever I wanted, within reason," says Ellen. Her light-aqua room has a surfboard headboard from PBteen, pastel paper lamps from Pier 1 and a surfer-theme picture frame from Old Navy. Not everything is from a chain store. Ellen found a hula-girl lamp at a Galveston...
...exactly, did kids gain such influence and financial clout in their homes? James McNeal, a former Texas A&M professor who is considered the godfather of kids' marketing, notes that between 1950 and 1990, households went from being a patriarchy with Dad in charge, to a matriarchy with Mom in charge, to--you guessed it--a "filiarchy" with kids calling the shots. Or at least co-directing them. Younger parents, especially, are letting their kids control the decorating. "Gen X parents are more collaborative, less me-centered than the boomers. They engage their children in discussions about purchases," says...