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...dinner by my parents at a young age. My sons were raised that way as well. I drank too much once. My sons drink responsibly and never drink and drive. They are now raising their own families, and I expect that when their very young children are a bit older, they will do the same with them. Children learn an enormous amount from their parents; they should have the chance to learn responsible drinking from them as well. Edward Goldberg, Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...innovation in board games. In fact, the last 15 years have seen great innovations in board-game design. One game, Settlers of Catan, has almost single-handedly sparked a renaissance in board gaming in Europe. And retoolings of classic American games like Risk have introduced ideas that leave many older games in the dust. Granted, board games are a niche hobby. However, the 250,000-plus people who visit the Essen Games Fair in Germany each year would be the first to tell you that board-game designs have come a long way, baby! Jan Velinger, Prague...
...encouraging kids to talk to their parents--and grandparents.' DR. SHARON LEE, medical director of HIV Wisdom for Older Women, on having youth teach their elders about safe sex as STD-infection rates rise in people 45 and older...
...McCain is the one who might benefit from the jolt that comes from launching a running mate. While Obama is trying to brand McCain as nothing more than an older George Bush, the right running mate could help McCain break symbolically from the White House. It could also elevate the excitement around McCain's campaign and possibly energize fund raisers...
...Twain got older and was beset by personal tragedies like the death of his beloved daughter Susy, his view of mankind grew darker. He once told his friend William Dean Howells that "the remorseless truth" in his work was generally to be found "between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell." But in 1900, when he could no longer stomach the foreign adventures of the Western powers, he came right out and called a pile of it a pile of it. In the previous year...