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...only boy she ever loved (Glenn Fitzgerald), who is both "ex-gay" and dying of testicular cancer. Among others on her hit list are an E.R. nurse (Marylouise Burke) whose Roman Catholic piety seems somehow to reinforce her talent for murder and a teenage girl (Merritt Wever) whose mom and dad cheer on her depredations as if she were playing soccer and had a shot at a college scholarship...
...rock-bottom $60 price. Even better, the Vista was supposed to synchronize addresses, appointments and to-do lists with Microsoft Outlook, the most popular personal-information manager for PCs. But Vista's keyboard got a lot less cute when I actually had to type on it. Entering my mom's address and phone number took about 10 minutes because I kept accidentally hitting a key that erased everything...
...labels, staples and sorts them for after-lunch delivery to its 320 campers. The kids, however, must write letters the old-fashioned way, with pencil and paper. "One of our goals is to make sure children gain a sense of independence. If they were able to e-mail Mom and Dad to be rescued every time something came up, that would destroy the whole value of camp," says owner-director Linda Courtiss. "Plus, parents would want to micromanage their kids from a distance--and that would be a camp director's nightmare...
...means of communication available, most kids still prefer to get letters through the good old U.S. mail, say camp directors. Nothing beats the intimacy of Mom's handwriting or Dad's clippings of the latest sports stats--and no one has yet figured out how to tuck a crisp $5 bill into an e-mail or fax for spending at the camp store (though that will come soon enough). No matter how the mail arrives, says Rodger Popkin, president of the American Camping Association and co-owner of Blue Star Camps in North Carolina, "if we're doing...
...Mom didn't give much trouble, either; the only movies that bothered her were "Psycho," where she was right; "Dr. Strangelove," where she was wrong; and "Goldfinger," where she was sitting in the next seat ready to throw herself between me and the screen...