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...Boys playing Halo, a popular game for the X-Box game console, for instance—where the objective is to shoot everything in sight—learn that manhood is about power and domination. Television reinforces the lesson, often advertising a violent brand of masculinity. TV shows celebrate hyper-violent male icons like wrestlers, football players and action-heroes, a.k.a. professional killers. Meanwhile, men who don’t put on what anti-violence educator Jackson Katz calls a “tough guise” are portrayed as spineless, ineffective, misdirected, and gay, or they?...
Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker went head to head last night in a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum discussion, debating the ethics of designer genes, free-market eugenics and hyper-parenting...
...gossip on Scarlett Johansson’s stunning Ferretti gown, Diane Keaton’s hyper-androgynous tux and Renee Zellweger’s vintage-inspired Carolina Herrera could very well go on forever. The movies themselves seem like an afterthought. I suppose you could say that I’m still drunk on the bacchanalian wonder that is fashion at the Oscars...
...that many of the venerables - a go-kart on a track, a float through a wonderland such as ?It?s a Small World? - are just as magic to a three-year-old as whatever the latest high-tech marvel is. Jack preferred the cars to the super-colorful and hyper-sensory ?Buzz Lightyear?s Space Ranger Spin,? which is essentially an arcade game with wheels. I was pained by a reflection while in Tomorrowland: ?Space Mountain,? the great indoor roller coaster, is now a venerable. I went on it the year it opened, and I dare not research just...
...haven?t been there in a while, I have this happy news to report: It?s not just science and culture any more. Somebody whispered in Epcot?s ear along the way, ?Rides. It?s the rides, you mope. The folks - they like rides.? Now you?ve got hyper-exciting attractions like ?Test Track? and especially this year?s ?Mission: SPACE,? as well as 3-D movies (?Honey, I Shrunk the Audience?) and bio-medical thrill rides (?Body Wars...