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...their children should play these games or not," says Chicago mom Michelle Nolan, 37, who keeps her family's PlayStation 2 system in her bedroom so she and her husband can monitor what their children play. And, needless to say, most youngsters consider regulation unnecessary. Alex Spicer, 16, of Orinda, Calif., says that he plays video games for five hours at a time on weekends and that he and his friends stop only for bathroom breaks. He's a huge fan of Halo 2, in which humans and aliens kill one another with guns, grenades and other weapons...
Save the big cats! finally, a cover story to be enthusiastic about. A trek into the savanna--a land unpopulated by those other man eaters, Bush and bin Laden. What I would give for this vacation to never end! LEIF JOHNSON Orinda, Calif...
According to the Patriot Ledger, the late chief is survived by three sons, Kenneth Tonis of Orinda, Calif., David Tonis of Brockton and Frank Tonis of Phoenix, Ariz.; a daughter, Barbara Brack of Yarmouth Port; a brother, Richard Tonis of Brewster; three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews...
DIED. POUL ANDERSON, 74, award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy; of prostate cancer; in Orinda, Calif. A self-described "total social misfit," Anderson escaped high school angst by immersing himself in books. He began writing his own stories and in college sold his first one, Tomorrow's Children, about the consequences of the atom bomb. Of his prolific output--which included such novels as Tau Zero and The Boat of a Million Years--his wife said, "We lost count after...
...reason that fathers do: to earn a living to support their families. Reading of studies that sound Chicken Little alarms about the effects of day care only creates an additional burden on those of us who are trying to do the best we can for our families. LORAINE JONG Orinda, Calif...