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...Peter Baylies is always a fine choice for father of the year. As the founder of the At-Home Dad Network, Peter continues on his nine-year quest to establish a bona fide home front for the more than 2,000,000 American dads who have left the cubicle for the small desk in their den. But when I called Peter to get the latest at-home daddy scoop, he glumly informed me that no new data exists. ""The Census tries to track us," he said, "but their efforts fall short. They never ask who the primary caregiver is." According...
...want a good look at how America views Dad," Peter suggested, "turn on the TV." Since the advent of television, parenting has been a staple of prime time; during my childhood, I regularly found patriarchal paragons across the dial - from "Father Knows Best" to "Little House on the Prairie" to the Cos. This year, comedian Bernie Mac would be the obvious choice as TV's favorite dad. His show has a bold spin (he plays a childless husband who takes in his sister's kids while she's in rehab), and the ratings are strong. My trouble with Bernie, though...
...Peter Allen...
Professional groups for high-risk specialties are concerned about the loss of people like Palmeri and Peter Chien Jr., a New York University medical student who contemplated orthopedics but is opting for dermatology, a less litigious field. Perhaps even more troubling, a quarter of final-year medical students polled said they would not study medicine if they started their education over. Thankfully for his patients, that's a change of attitude Palmeri hasn't shared. --By Amanda Bower
...Matriculated, my favorite, is written and directed by Peter Chung, creator of the ground-breaking if perplexing MTV anim? Aeon Flux. Chung grasps the creepy biomechanics at the heart of the Matrix world. His machines and humans alike are faintly insectoid and fatally interdependent on each other. Remember how Morpheus talks about going "down the rabbit hole"? Well, Matriculated pulls you there and then some. Chung takes the concept of humans living in a computer-generated world and turns it on its head, plugging a machine into a kaleidoscopic human dreamworld. The result is electric?Kool-Aid brain candy, with...