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...STORM CLOUDS HAD PASSED OVER, leaving behind a cool, clear Florida evening, a perfect night for the grandest spectacle that baseball could offer: Nolan Ryan pitching in a spring-training ball park so intimate that there are no bad seats. Ryan, "the Wizard of Whiff," 46 years young (Bill Clinton's junior by five months), was dazzling against the New York Yankees on this mid- March evening. For the 5,000 lucky fans, all that mattered was the explosive pop of Ryan's fastball into the glove of Texas Ranger catcher Ivan Rodriguez. During his five-inning stint, Ryan...
...your remember your high school physics class, you should know that a length of wire with an electric current running through it generates a magnetic field--the stronger the current, the stronger the magnetic field. And if you ever watched Mr. Wizard, you should remember him showing how a magnetic field can distort a television image...
BILL CLINTON, ESTABLISHED WIZARD OF HIGH-TECH communications, finally bowed to the antiquated ritual of the East Room press conference, favored forum of the White House press corps. Using humor and knowledge to parry 31 questions ranging from budget to Boris Yeltsin, Clinton showed himself a master of the ring for nearly an hour, with only one small glitch. That was a hint that if he lifted the ban on gays in the military, they might be placed in segregated units. While such a compromise was tossed around in the testy debate between President and Pentagon, the White House began...
These and other American films about children are like a progressive preschool. In them, youngsters learn social skills through fantasy war games. Most of the favorite American kids' films, from The Wizard of Oz to E.T. and Home Alone, are rites of self-reliance. Children face adult obstacles (or rather, superhero torture tests) and in surmounting them become adults (or rather, Hollywood's ideal of adults, as kids with weapons). Real parents are redundant in fables for latchkey kids; all authority figures are oafish, evil or, mostly, absent. The lost child finds his own way home...
...problem of how to get some more spinach into the diet -- and, just as important, how to get kids to eat it. A batch of informational shows on the syndication market are drawing renewed attention. They include Beakman's World, a lighthearted science program featuring a frizzy-haired Mr. Wizard, currently seen on 225 stations; Scratch, a magazine-style show aimed at teens, airing on 110 stations; and Real News for Kids, a Turner Broadcasting production carried on 210. NBC has a new Saturday-morning entry in the field: Name Your Adventure, in which kids are given a chance...