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...show's success is her Clark Kent--the fictional Miley. Celebrity today is as rarefied as ever, yet with YouTube and reality TV, seems more accessible than ever. It's tantalizing but, as personified by Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, terrifying. Miley--a normal, grounded schoolkid--makes the fantasy safe. The theme song says it all: "You get the best of both worlds...
...would not have been easy, and piecing it all together would have required resourcefulness, brilliance and more than a little luck. But it was possible. The question now is not so much, How did it happen?--every schoolkid knows that story--but, What has been done in the two years since 9/11 to prevent it from happening again? What steps has the government taken so that the gathering of intelligence and the profitable use of it is assured and routine? With the joint report as a guide, we have analyzed six critical problems with America's intelligence posture and compiled...
...highlight of Terry Benca's week in the Boot Camp class in August was when one of the chefs complimented Benca on an apple-ginger sauce he made for a pork medallion entree. "I felt like a schoolkid; I was so excited," says Benca, 56, an engineer who lives in Allegany, N.Y. "I couldn't wait to tell my wife...
...Until the very recent past, the entire continent of Asia shared the plight of a schoolkid searching for sexual wisdom from that universally unreliable school yard. There was one exception, that unique floating world called Japan, but it merely proved the rule. Asian countries were too poor for a sexual revolution. Or too stubbornly conservative. Or tangled in political ideologies. One thing they all had in common: they were tightly controlled by their stodgy, patriarchal leaders. And it always seemed the last thing on the minds of men like Deng Xiaoping or Lee Kuan Yew was getting a little...
...Immaculate Conception. That's a pretty big responsibility for a little kid.") They are a sublime mismatch of the sort usually found only in marriages. Fred balances Mom's checkbook and, as a Mother's Day gift, writes her an opera. Dede brags, like a tough schoolkid, about how she aced out some fastidious jerk in her basement laundry. For her, chain letters are literature. The boy, a nonstop reader, also dotes on Van Gogh's flower studies. Sometimes, Fred says, "I wake up in his paintings...