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Though these electronic umbilical cords are meant to comfort anxious parents, they can backfire. "Now we get phone calls that are like, 'I saw my kid on your website, but he wasn't smiling. Is everything O.K.?'" says Richard Moss, who has run Camp Lenox in Massachusetts for 20 years. That may explain the recent surge in full-family camps, where kids and parents go hiking and sit around the campfire together. The number of these programs registered with the American Camp Association has jumped, from 192 in 1991 to 552 today. Pass the s'mores...
...Country for Old Men is not merely a serial-killer novel, although it works perfectly well as one. In fact, it begins in an entirely different genre, when a good-hearted mug named Moss stumbles onto the remains of a drug deal gone bad: six bodies out in the desert and a satchel full of $2.4 million in very hot cash. After some mental hand wringing, Moss takes the money and runs, knowing that whoever set up the deal will probably come after both it and him. "It's a mess, aint it Sheriff?" a local deputy says...
Running after Moss are that world-weary local sheriff, whose name is Bell, and the murderous Chigurh, who works for the druglords but makes it a matter of principle to whack anybody who looks at him funny, and some who don't. Chigurh isn't just testy; he's mesmerized by his power over life and death and fascinated by the vagaries of chance that spare some people and bring others within range of his little air-powered friend. "Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God," he tells a prospective victim...
...Staff writer Alexandra B. Moss can be reached at abmoss@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Alexandra B. Moss can be reached at abmoss@fas.harvard.edu...