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...IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns popular sites like match.com, ask.com and citysearch.com, has launched a youth-oriented virtual world of its own called Zwinktopia, which lets members customize avatars, play games and explore cartoon-like chat rooms. Unveiled April 30 and aimed at netheads aged 13 to 34, the site is entirely free. Members earn virtual "Zbucks" by playing games, meeting new people, and exploring different parts of Zwinktopia, including its café, stadium, arcades and pixelated beach...
...introduce children to important concepts like animal homosexuality, as explored in the true story of two male penguins that mated for life and raised a chick in the New York Central Park Zoo. And yet, personal comfort may still be the biggest draw to the books of our youth. On her blog, Mistress Matisse, a Seattle-based professional dominatrix, professes her love for the “Anne of Green Gables” series “in which no one cursed, vomited, or had a thought about anything below their waist, ever, ever, ever.” No matter...
...deserted island with cameras watching their every move? “The Condemned,” an action-packed adrenaline rush of a movie with enough bombs and gore to satiate the audience’s needs—assuming the audience is your average American male youth, thirsty for the return of Stone Cold and epic violence. In the film, 10 death row convicts from across the world are “purchased” by an aspiring Internet entrepreneur and dropped on a deserted island. Their goal: be the last one standing. The sole survivor earns...
...kibbutz's experiment failed for other reasons. Israeli youth felt stifled and left. "Kibbutz life is peaceful and rich," says Koperstein. "But it came at a high price. You gave up individual needs. The idea of having someone telling you what to think, what to study, what work to do--it's like having four walls closing you in." In some kibbutzim (not Degania), children were separated from parents and raised in collective dormitories. Says Gal-Sarai: "Kibbutzniks from the other places are bringing good business to Tel Aviv's shrinks." Koperstein, who was not raised at Degania, recalls...
...Stardust, Pfeiffer plays a witch who sometimes looks 20 (at 49 the actress seems to have been instantly time-warped to her Scarface youth) and sometimes 200, with frown lines and liver spots popping up in seconds. "What I didn't anticipate was the horror of wearing all those prosthetics," she says. "The hardest thing is sitting in that chair five hours while they're applied, and knowing you have another 12 hours keeping them on." Wearing all that wrinkly glop on your face is hard enough--but how do you act through it? "There's a certain lack...