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...into a surreal Willy Wonka-style world, Spy Kids ostensibly stars Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino as a pair of secret agents who decide to retire from the espionage game and settle into a quiet family life, but the real heroes are their plucky tykes, Carmen and Juni (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara), who are forced to save the day when mom and dad tumble into the clutches of evil. In one respect, Spy Kids shares a clear kinship to Rodriguez's previous films though its breezy, comic-book inventiveness-the playful "kids-save-parents" concept is every...
...camp directors allow the e-mail to flow freely both ways. Camp Vega near Augusta, Maine, downloads and prints out about 1,000 pieces of e-mail every summer night and labels, staples and sorts them for after-lunch delivery to its 320 campers. The kids, however, must write letters the old-fashioned way, with pencil and paper. "One of our goals is to make sure children gain a sense of independence. If they were able to e-mail Mom and Dad to be rescued every time something came up, that would destroy the whole value of camp," says owner...
...daily with 80 freshly snapped photos. "It's the best thing since Cheerios!" she says. "The photos give the parent visual validation that everything is O.K." Patti Soboroff, a Los Angeles homemaker, started using a computer for the first time when her three daughters began spending summers at Camp Vega. "I saw my girls more by visiting the website than I saw my two boys, who stayed home," she jokes...
...ability to "broaden students' horizons," Vega said...
...Vega added Koch was a different kind of speaker amidst past panels dominated by investment banking or consulting...