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When, as a youngster, Hugh Jackman crossed the street on his way to school, he would doff his little blue woolen cap to the drivers who stopped for him. It's not that he is excessively well-mannered, although he is, or that he grew up in a particularly genteel part of Sydney, Australia, although he did. It was one of the school's rules. And Jackman, who went on to be head boy of his expensive, tradition-bound school (students there still wear kilts), was always the type who played by the rules...
...their son wouldn't get lost because he had all the raw ingredients of a star: speed, flexibility, coordination, leaping ability, size. By measuring the gaps between the bones of his hand and tracking the growth of his genitals--a Chinese-honed indicator of height--Dai predicted that the youngster would reach...
...camp experience is designed mostly to let grandparents teach their youngster a thing or two about life and the outdoors. But it doesn't always work out that way exactly. Sometimes the older members learn new tricks too. "Our grandson Grant [Pollock], now 13, knew how to pitch a tent, and we didn't," says Richard Hansen, 75, who with wife Shirley attended the Hulbert Outdoor Center's Elderhostel canoeing program last year. "He was also the captain of the canoe. He taught us how to do things, and we weren't always the fastest learners. But the experience...
...youngster, Duncan collected comic books like The Fantastic Four, and his fascination with superheroes and action stars has continued into adulthood. His new home in San Antonio is filled with a collection of replica knives from the action and kung fu movies that he loves, like "Blade." He proudly sports two big tattoos on his torso: depictions of Merlin the Wizard and a Joker. Like many pro athletes, he's superstitious - he wears his practice shorts backwards - and loves to play video games like John Madden Football...
...specter of schizophrenia returned with their third child, Peter. A happy, precocious youngster who learned to read in kindergarten, Peter focused less and less on school as he got older. It wasn't until after he joined the Air Force in 1985, however, that his life truly began to deteriorate. Peter remembers sitting next to another student in a training class and telling him about what seemed to him to be a wondrous, novel idea. "But then he just looked at me funny," Peter recalls. "He says to me, 'You aren't saying anything. You're just making noises...