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DIED. JOHN TOLAND, 91, historian; in Connecticut. His account of the war in the Pacific, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945, was told primarily from the Japanese point of view and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
...deeply weird adult to make TV for them. Fortunately for us, and for them, Anne Wood is just that weird. Wood, 65, is the pink-haired Englishwoman who created Teletubbies, that dreamy, Dadaesque little kids' show about colorful humanoids with TVs in their bellies who live under a sun that has the face of a baby. Now that Teletubbies has finally wrapped after 365 episodes, Wood has a new show that takes us back into the alternative universe of the very young. It's aimed at 3-to 6-year-olds--a slightly older crowd than the Teletubbies...
...climb into their spaceship, bed down in snuggly, podlike bunks and close their eyes. Wood compares the process to the way children learn that cell phones or electric toys have to go into a recharger. Peculiar--but it makes a certain uncanny, ineffable child sense, like that laughing baby sun in Teletubbies. "There's always one or two people--they're in the minority--who don't like the baby sun," Wood sighs. "And they'll say to me, I hate that baby! And you say, Oh dear, how sad that is. But that's how it is: either...
VITAMIN D: A comprehensive study of more than 3,000 U.S. veterans found that fiber-rich diets that contain lots of vitamin D--the so-called sun vitamin, which is also plentiful in mackerel, salmon and fortified milk--significantly reduce the incidence of precancerous growths in the colon. British researchers linked an abundance of vitamin D to fewer fractures in people 65 years and older...
...expnd our horizons then we diminish ourselves and limit the horizons of our children. In the end we must go to space or the race is doomed to extinction due to a meteor, pollution, scarcity of resourses or an exploding sun; so let it be the U.S. who leads the way to the future. Clinton Talley Moorhead, Minn...