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Interactive adventures don't get much better than Dreamworks' scary new title, Goosebumps, based on the book series by R.L. Stine. Kids nine and up can explore a haunted village and solve clues as they try to find a way out. Video clips of the cd-rom's main character, Lizzy, and her friends add a realistic touch to the adventure, while visits to haunts like the Full Moon Cafe--with its menu of scrambled brains and blood pudding--add to the eeriness. The game mixes parent-stumping logic puzzles with a rich landscape that kids will find endlessly intriguing...
...burgeoning environmental major could be the evidence Ruden stine is looking...
...freestyle. But when it counted, it was like an out-of-body experience." It was a sad parenthesis in the wacky competition that combines hotdogging exhibitionism with athletic zeal. American Liz McIntyre, a Dartmouth graduate, captured a silver medal by executing a Daffy Twister jump, while winner Stine Lise Hattestad of Norway performed a Cossack -- an aerial ballet split on skis, as did the men's mogul winner, Canadian Jean-Luc Brassard. Each race was introduced by a recorded rooster's loud "cock-a-doodle...
...that an upcoming program contains material unsuitable for young people, parents order their children away from the set and then brace themselves for whines and grumbling. Oddly, the exiles disappear without complaint and go off to their rooms . . . to read books. Sis, 13, picks up her copy of R.L. Stine's The Babysitter III: "His expression was blank, as blank as death. And with a quick, simple motion, he grabbed the baby's head with one hand, twisted it, and pulled it off." Across the hall, Junior, 11, turns the pages of Christopher Pike's Monster: "Mary pointed her shotgun...
...Stine, 49, who turns out a thriller a month and has 7.5 million copies of his 27-part Fear Street series in print, agrees that such books mean no harm. "Part of the appeal is that they're safe scares. You're home in your room and reading. The books are not half as scary as the real world." At the same time, Stine also implies that the real world needs embellishment; his challenge, he says, is "to find new cheap thrills" for his young readers. "I mean disgusting, gross things to put in the book that they'll like...