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During his stay, in a taut and almost unreadable scene, three black men attack Lucy, ransacking her home, shooting her dogs and taking turns with her. "Too many people, too few things," Lurie thinks afterward. "What there is must go into circulation ... Not human evil, just a vast circulatory system, to whose workings pity and terror are irrelevant. That is how one must see life in this country: in its schematic aspect. Otherwise one could...
Kindergartners are definitely capable of reading and doing simple mathematics. Teaching them these subjects is not asking too much of them. It is merely encouraging them to work to their full ability instead of allowing their minds to stagnate until they have reached what the school system designates as the proper age at which one should learn to read. KATIE RASCHKO, AGE 17 Seattle...
JUVENILE JUSTICE Ignorance of the law is no excuse. And that goes for kids too, which is why the Arizona Bar Foundation is pioneering a website designed to teach youngsters about the justice system. The site, www.lawforkids.org offers kid-friendly explanations, personal stories from youngsters in trouble, answers to questions ranging from state graffiti laws to federal child labor laws, and links for help and information. The site already averages 38,000 hits a month from across the country, and will soon add audio testimony from kids about their experiences with...
NEED FOR SPEED Don't assume every PC game will run on your machine, especially if it's a few years old. Action games can be prohibitively slow on anything less than a 200-MHz chip. Always check system requirements before...
...least in major markets--and those who buy wide-screen, HDTV-capable sets (see No. 1) will have "future-proofed" their living rooms. "Now is the time to start thinking about HDTV," says Lee Richman, a home-theater custom installer in New York City who helped design the system on these pages. The total cost of our fantasy setup, not including furniture: $6,900. Of course, you don't need every black box shown here. But you may be tempted...