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There's a recession because nothing works. I'm talking about the New Economy here. Cell phones. Satellite TV. PDAs. Computers. The stuff that was supposed to make us rich but won't make us rich because it doesn't work...
...people stopped buying stuff. Voila: recession...
Mortality is a familiar DMB theme, and it surfaces on Everyday. When Matthews was 10, his physicist father John died of cancer; in 1994, Matthews' elder sister Anne was murdered. Says Matthews: "It had an effect on my outlook. Statements like, 'They're in a better place'--all that stuff is just junk food. Her death and the death of my father made me stand up and pay attention. It makes you not want to forget--not want to forget to live...
...resound in his work. "I'm inspired by resilience in the face of adversity," he says. "And that's Africa. The continent has been so repeatedly betrayed by disease and by invasion that its contributions to the world are pretty amazing. The art of the 20th century--the stuff that in 200 years the world will look back on--a lot of it will be rooted back in Africa." With that inspiration, Matthews is more than an Everyday kind of rocker...
Aunt Lena, I apologize. If I had done right by you, I would have given you a cute title like "the Baby Whisperer," and you would be strutting your stuff on the Today show. But now it's too late. British nanny Tracy Hogg has beat us to it, dispensing commonsense advice in an overhyped package. Hogg's book, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (Ballantine Books), is the latest phenomenon in the business of selling parenting advice to the sleep deprived. Hogg knows from her years as a baby nurse to the rich, powerful (and apparently clueless) Hollywood elite that...