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...just me, or has the news been larded with stories that speak eloquently and amusingly of our cultural obsession with youth and newness? Well, to some extent, it probably is just me: I happen to be turning 40 this week, so I'm a little sensitive. But I swear, every paper I read, every newscast I watch, all I'm hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Expiration-Date Culture | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...earnestly. His wry sense of humor will be a relief to hassled parents. He observes, for example, that at 12 to 15 months, a toddler is "becoming aware of the expressive function of language and has developed an uncanny ability to pick out--and endlessly repeat--the one swear word you accidentally slipped into a 10-minute-long conversation." Brott also knows how to get a dad's attention: active fathering, he suggests, is "the ultimate aphrodisiac" for your partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Parenting Books | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Walk through the doors of Warehouse No. 2 at 701 East 37th Street in Wichita, Kans., on a weekday morning, and you will swear you have entered a school. Parent sign-up sheets festoon the walls. A small library offers comfy chairs and a plentiful supply of magazines. Basketballs bounce in the distance, and a poster next to the weight room illustrates the "6 S's of Fitness" (strength, stamina, speed, suppleness, skill, spirit). The kids racing down the linoleum hallway take Spanish, art, p.e. and government here. They hit baseballs from the pitching machine, and they splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home (School) Improvement | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...into a spine-tingling. ghoulish mood for Halloween, freak yourself out by going to Spooky World, America's Horror Theme Park. Four haunted houses, five Halloween Haunted Attractions, and (this is not a joke, we swear it) a 3D Disco Haunted House. It's a little shop of horrors, so good little boys and girls who sleep with a nightlight on might want to take a raincheck on this one. 7 p.m., 100 River Road, Berlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTINGS | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...their part, want Bruce Lindsey, the elusive keeper of the President's secrets, to appear. But there's no consensus on whether Clinton the witness would benefit one side or the other. And that issue is probably moot since the chance is slim he'll raise his hand and swear an oath before a committee of mostly junior Congressmen peering down at him from their platform armchairs. Clinton would not be likely to have a transcendent, Ollie North moment; he's not an unknown lieutenant colonel with a cause to defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Up: The Touchy Subjects | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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