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Fifi isn't sure that her parents love each other. "They don't know anything about sex," she says. "They just think it's for making children, not for making love." He works at the tax bureau, and she's a stay-at-home mom, who doesn't seem too excited when he comes back each night. Coming of age during the Cultural Revolution, they met at a time in China's history when personal satisfaction was subordinate to the collective socialist cause. "That generation didn't have a chance to find the perfect person," she says. "They...
Snitches are becoming angels. Last month in Fort Collins, Colo., two girls warned police about three students who were then discovered with weapons and plans to attack Preston Junior High. Just last week in Twentynine Palms, Calif., Victoria Sudd, 17, watched the Santee horror unfold and then told her mom that she had heard two boys make comments on the bus about killing people. Sudd's father contacted the authorities, who quickly obtained a search warrant for the homes of the boys. The cops found a rifle and a list of 16 students whom the boys allegedly were going...
...politics simply do not mix. There could be no grandiose pronouncements, no claims that Pi Day is as American as mom, the flag and apple pi; the ratio, after all, belongs to the world. Legislators write home about how they were tough on crime, or saved the federal linoleum subsidy; any Congressman who told his constituency about his sponsorship of Pi Day would be laughed out of office. (Unless his constituency were entirely composed of mathematicians, in which case he would be anointed king...
...quickly becomes apparent that she is selling nostalgia for the decadent '20s, or perhaps the Gilded Age of innocence. The miracle is, unlike the J. Peterson catalogue, Martha sells it for the price of a mass-produced appliance. She flawlessly melds nostalgia for the do-it-yourself mom of the Cold War--who single-handedly built and stocked a bomb shelter with attractive canned goods--with nostalgia for the Great Gatsby mansions of an earlier era where elaborate parties and swirls of ribbon and beads decorated everything from hats and dresses to cakes and ballrooms...
...There is good news: We've found that kids lose weight when parents are on the same program. The most successful weight loss programs for kids are called "family weight control" plans. Mom and Dad, even if they don't have weight problems, have to go through the same program as their kid and learn how to encourage and participate in exercise, how to eat healthily in restaurants. If a parent is on a program, they'll be more excited about it and won't feel hypocritical telling their kids to go out and get some exercise...