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...population of New York City is 7 million--that is, absent the horde of literary characters who hover in odd corners of museums, frolic in the parks, stroll ordinary streets and make the city a warm and friendly place for a well-read youngster. "Seeing real places that are associated with books makes stories come alive," says Judy Zuckerman, a children's-books specialist at the New York Public Library, "and visiting something kids have read about adds a personal dimension to a trip...
...Pablo is still sleeping. He must be tired," one toddler tells the caregiver while hovering over the sleeping youngster's head...
Stop trying to conform. Go back to your roots with the one and only Bazooka Joe. Mints, shmints; cinnaburst, minnamurst. What's weaker than a sudden explosion of mock maturity than the youngster who without warning switches from bubble gum to mint? Really, it's all about the roots. Who was there in elementary school and junior high? Not the Wrigley's twins, not any strangely favored lifesaver, not any "curiously strong" mint. It was, always has been, and always will be good old Joe, with a comic wrap to keep that smile on your face and a familiar flavor...
That's true even if, as some experts suspect, the specimen is really as little as 2.5 million years old. Complete skeletons are so rare that even such a relative youngster will inevitably flesh out the book of human evolution as few discoveries ever have. Says William Kimbel, science director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University: "It will give us what we got from Lucy, and more...
...unfinished self-portrait of a hoop star with a year of college education and six kids by six different women, a suit and an unflinching desire to be the richest man alive, even if undeservedly so. Where once we acknowledged that NBA players could at least teach youngster the value of hard work, we must now worry that they teach instead the value of avarice...