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Derek, his mom Leslie and his dad Jeffrey are the first volunteer test subjects for a new, implantable computer device called VeriChip. Later this spring, pending Food and Drug Administration approval, doctors will load a wide-bore needle with a microchip containing a few kilobytes of silicon memory and a tiny radio transmitter and inject it under the skin of their left arms, where it will serve as a medical identification device. It sounds like science fiction. (Remember the Borg on Star Trek? Resistance is futile!) But VeriChip is quite real. The Jacobs family could be the first...
...business. He remembers vividly when he first saw VeriChip on the Today show. "I thought it was great technology," he says. "I wanted to be a part of it." And when Derek sets his mind to a problem, he generally solves it. "Derek stood up and said to me, 'Mom, I want to be the first kid implanted with the chip,'" remembers Leslie Jacobs, an advertising executive at Florida Design magazine. "He kept bugging me to call the company until I finally broke down...
...practice run for peewee test takers. To join "gifted" programs, students in grades 3 through 6 can take an ACT designed for eighth-graders. It's not for my kids, though. They have cartoons to watch, CDs to play, childhoods to live. I cringed when I heard about a mom who brought her video camera to a classroom window at a Michigan high school. Her child was inside taking this ACT, and she wanted to capture the moment...
...parents in the work force, children are taking on more of the responsibility for preparing meals and after-school snacks. Dan Castellano, 16, of Corvallis, Ore., makes Thai food with his dad, but his motivation goes beyond spending time with his father. "I realized," he admits, "that my mom didn't have to do all the cooking...
...likely to eat what they have helped to prepare--and to try food they might not otherwise touch--if they have had a hand (ideally, well scrubbed) in making it. "Cooking is so much fun," says Letty Langton, 6, of St. Augustine, Fla. "I get to cook with my mom and dad. I like mixing up stuff and tasting...