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...craving of an over-technologized populace for something uncontrollable and unpredictable. Floyd may have pulled a Michigan J. Frog, croaking when it was supposed to sing and dance, but there was always the lure of the might-still, the carnage yet to be. And until Friday, when the word "fizzled" finally appeared in headlines, it was big, nation-binding business for the national town criers. Much bigger, and much better, than the random killing of some teenagers as they prayed...
...frugivor' is a person who eats fruit," said Bailey. "We never heard the word, but after shortening and test-marketing it with over 75 other names, we knew that when you hear 'Frugi' you think 'fruity...
Tremendous is the operative word if you're considering home ed. Although some dual-career couples and single parents attempt it, 95% of home-schooling families have one parent who is not working outside the home. Parents have to act as teachers, administrators, social directors and more. Many just plain burn out before high school...
...Americans tend to view the teenage years, from puberty to the prom, as a singular life passage. But author Thomas Hine reminds us that for most of our history, those between 13 and 19 did not move in lockstep through their education--or even attend school--and that the word teenager dates back only to 1941. "What was new about the idea of the teenager at the time the word first appeared during World War II," writes Hine, "was the assumption that all young people--regardless of their class, location or ethnicity--should have essentially the same experience, spent with...
SOFTWARE WARS Sun Microsystems is giving away an entire suite of Microsoft-compatible office software, from word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs to calendars and e-mail. Download the free 65-MB StarOffice at www.sun.com (this may take a while) or pay $10 for a CD. Mac users must wait for the universally compatible Web-based version, Star-Portal, to offer the same applications and store their data online, creating truly portable desktops...