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...ever--will not be disappointed. Set centuries after Ocarina, Wind Waker takes the form of a pirate-ship quest across an oceanic world. Legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario Bros., Donkey Kong) has packed the adventure with echoes of and improvements on its predecessors' puzzles. The cartoon-like graphics are pure eye candy--sumptuously smooth and lovingly detailed. (Check out the heat haze from flames or your hero's wet footprints as he crawls out of the sea.) We can't wait for the sequel. --By Chris Taylor
...mother-daughter groups that were springing up around them. "A mother-son group seemed kind of quirky and fun," says Claflin Marshall. Summerland, which is 500 pages and drew mixed reviews from the group, is one of about 30 books they have read. The boys' tastes are, well, pure boy: heavy on science fiction and fantasy (think Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth and Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing with Dragons). The moms' picks have included Laurie Halse Anderson's historical fiction Fever 1793, the story of a young girl during the yellow-fever epidemic in post-Revolutionary Philadelphia...
...idea that Native Americans, as well as other early humans the world over, lived in ecological harmony, is pure fantasy,” he says...
...Gehrig division with an 11-9 record. Led by All-Ivy seniors Andrew McCreery and Nick Italiano, hitting will be Penn’s strength. McCreery—who batted an Ivy-best .419 in league competition last season—may be the league’s best pure hitter and was named the Great Lakes League MVP this summer. Meanwhile, Italiano is on the verge of becoming Penn’s career hits leader. To topple Princeton, though, the Quakers will have to get solid pitching from someone besides McCreery...
Self didn’t manage any strikeouts yesterday, but what he lacked in pure power he more than made up for in Self control. He walked just one, and that didn’t come until the eighth inning, when Self, who’s already thrown more innings this season than any of his previous three, made his exit. He was still in line for the win when he left. But one day after the Harvard bullpen failed to preserve a victory for junior Trey Hendricks at Penn, it couldn’t save Self either. He took...