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After reading your forecasts for the future and Lev Grossman's article "The Quest for Cool" [WHAT'S NEXT, Sept. 8], I've concluded that I have never been cool, I have no desire to ever be cool, and those who think they are cool really aren't. ROB NANCE Westerville, Ohio...
...just keep getting harder to find." The youth of every generation has its moments of temporary insanity, but for any society to thrive and move forward, there must be a genuine awareness of and respect for the past. If we Americans keep pushing the envelope in an increasingly outrageous quest for the ultimate, cutting-edge in cool, then I'm afraid our future will take us down the same path of decadence chosen by great societies that are now only history. BARBARA ISENBERG Royal Palm Beach...
...getting too emotionally connected to your pastime can also drive you a little nuts, as soft-spoken nurse Stella Henry, 56, can tell you. She's on a quest to round out her 500-strong Beanie Baby collection. Among her tactics: spending evenings frantically refreshing eBay pages; lining up a source at Nordstrom's who hides new models for her; driving from her Los Angeles home to San Diego and Santa Barbara, Calif., to follow up on rumors of Beanie supply; attending Beanie conventions; and frequenting a tiny Barstow, Calif., shop where she finds rare Beanies. "It's a supplier...
...addition to the pretest and the mock competition, the Jeopardy! Clue Crew—a band of crew members who travel around in a quest for obscure facts—created a circus-like atmosphere, handing out key chains, t-shirts, a special “Simpsons” edition of the Jeopardy! board game and tickets to the New Haven show...
Defeating the Quakers would be a great first step for the Crimson in its quest for the Ivy League championship, a feat that has thus far eluded all of the current players on the team...