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...become a ritual for us, eating out three times a week, since we sold Dad's house in Texas and moved him to California a year ago at age 83. "Kick 'em!" he says, and we clink our glasses and connect--more than we ever connected before. Since Mom died more than two years ago, we hug and kiss--things we never did when I was growing up and he was a workaholic architect out to change the world...
...Washington State to neighboring Idaho, where tolerance and intolerance share a fragile coexistence. Nor should it have mattered that Neal Furrow had a familiarity with guns in a region where hunting is a pastime, if not a rite of passage. His parents live next door to Olympic Arms, a mom-and-pop manufacturer of gun parts, in the rural Nisqually Valley. Indeed, the thump-thump of artillery is a part of the audible landscape, thanks to a howitzer-firing range at nearby Fort Lewis...
...facility," she said. Some communities offer low-cost vans and private-car services. But city buses and taxis are often all there is. Losing a license is like a death sentence to most people. That's why the adult children of elderly drivers will usually not intervene--even when Mom or Dad is a road menace. Members of one Detroit family tried to persuade the grandfather, 96, to sell his Cadillac because he kept crashing into a tree next to the driveway. Instead he chopped down the offending object...
...largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother, an old-fashioned, benignly clueless sit-com mom. Together they create a smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects--life, death, the military-industrial complex--that you can talk about with the kids for a long time to come...
Some students see a summer on a college campus as a ticket to freedom. But students in Harvard Summer School's Secondary School Program (SSP) have found that college officials can be just as strict as Mom...