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...dreaded Borg and turned into one of them: half-man, half-machine. Part of my face and most of the top of my head are covered by evil-looking electronic gadgetry; there is more scary stuff strapped to my left wrist and around my waist. Getting into character, I wander around a giant shopping mall in Fairfax, just outside Washington, D.C., frightening the living daylights out of small children. It's all I can do to stop myself from intoning, like the captain of the Enterprise: "I am Locutus. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over...
...culture exporter. And when you're exporting music, movies and TV shows, other countries are interested in what you think and who you are. The upshot is a state that confidently and pragmatically goes about its business--even though much of that business is on the mainland. To wander through Taipei or tour the countryside is to realize that the hoary topic of reunification is not so much an issue as an irrelevance, a political parlor game fraught with linguistic and semantic tricks played out in Beijing, Washington and Taipei...
...when you're exporting your music, movies and TV shows, that means other countries are interested in what you think, who you are. The upshot is a state that confidently and pragmatically goes about its business (even though much of that business is on the mainland). And as you wander through Taipei or tour the countryside, you realize that the hoary topic of re-unification is not so much an issue as an irrelevance, a political parlor game fraught with linguistic and semantic tricks played out in Beijing, Washington and Taipei?a game that increasingly seems as anachronistic...
...refreshing to read that people are realizing that kids need to be kids. I cringe when I see small children walking home from elementary school with full backpacks. Play and time to be creative and wonder and wander, and time to be with family members, are so important for children's intellectual growth--and they wouldn't hurt us adults either. MARLA B. RAMIREZ Ukiah, Calif...
...probably lies somewhere in the middle. Certainly, not all of the horror stories we hear about grievous errors supposedly inflicted on friends of acquaintances of roommates could possibly be true, lest most of the people on campus suddenly find themselves pregnant quadriplegics carrying a bottle of aspirin as they wander to class. Yet the picture is not as rosy as JCAHO portrays...