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...often features working-class families, who scarcely exist in network drama nowadays); The Buried Life, about four friends who travel the world helping people accomplish things they want to do before they die; and My Life as Liz, a sort of reality My So-Called Life about a high school outcast in small-town Texas...
Epic disasters inspire dreams of glory. "Everyone wants to be a hero. Everyone wants to help," Dr. Thomas Kirsch, a co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, told MSNBC. "It's not the way to do it." A team from his school arrived in Haiti so unprepared, its members needed rescue themselves. "They had no bedding, supplies or food," he said, and they had to rely on other relief agencies for support...
...auguries are mixed. The Percy Jackson books, written by Rick Riordan, a former high school teacher now based in Texas, became a word-of-mouth sensation after the first one hit shelves in 2005. Parents loved that they were based on Greek myths: Percy (played by Logan Lerman in the movie) is actually Perseus, a demigod son of Poseidon. He faces down remodeled versions of such perils as Medusa (in New Jersey), the land of the lotus eaters (in Vegas) and Ares, the god of war (a Hell's Angel). Olympus is on top of the Empire State Building. Hades...
...kids had plenty of reasons to love the books too. Percy hates school, has a lot of attitude and is given to back talk. His first supernatural act in the book is to make a toilet violently discharge its contents over an adversary--an episode that was, probably wisely, omitted from the film. Even the gods come off hipper, and enhanced by mnemonic imagery. Who could forget that Apollo is god of the sun after he turns up in a flying red convertible Maserati Spyder...
Buzz Bissinger's article should be required reading for all athletes in high school and their parents [Feb. 8]. I am a certified athletic trainer working at a private high school, where I see many concussions every year. High school football players idolize the pro players and want to emulate their toughness. Until high school players see their heroes talking about the importance of head injuries and until coaches at every level educate players in the correct techniques, we will continue to have unnecessarily large numbers of high school injuries...