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...subject is touchy, and McKibben goes on at length to show that only children are, on average, perfectly O.K., normal, not lonely and unsocialized, and even likely to do better in school, presumably because of more adult attention. He cites research, some of it a bit woozy-sounding, asserting that "only children show more interest in science, music, math and literature, while kids with siblings care more for...mechanical and technical work, skilled trades, and labor." Yeah, yeah, thinks the reader, concluding (as does McKibben, in fact) that only children are a lot like the rest of us. If your...
Welcome to the bittersweet world of Sean Lennon. With the release of his first full-length album, Into the Sun (Grand Royal), inevitably the spotlights have turned to probe (Sean) Lennon's music, his philosophy and his beginnings without regard to the fragility of his blossoming status as an artist. Veteran reviewers are quick to judge based on genetics--they are naively searching out a tangible father-son musical bond when there is no reason for correlation. Newbie writers jump the bandwagon and want a piece of the hype. The blame cannot be wholly reserved for the press; listeners...
...leisurely pace. On Interstate 287, I looked with pity at the other drivers, their tinted windows shut tight, racing to be the first home. They weren't having nearly as much fun as I was. They rushed past me, cutting each other off, fighting to gain even one car length. I thought I knew the secret to a happier existence...
...game really slowed? In 1975, the Elias Sports Bureau says, the average length of the American League game was 2 hr. 25 min. Last year it ran 2 hr. 57 min. (National League games run about 10 min. shorter, probably because the American League's designated-hitter rule has removed the pitcher from the batting order; pitchers usually make for quick outs.) That half an hour is a huge increase, yet it fails to measure the agony of those games in which the earth's rotation seems to stop, in which the stillness is broken only by the faint sounds...
...working. Robinson says the average length of major league games this year has dropped 7 min. in the American League, 6 min. in the National. But will top-flight major leaguers like Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch, whose at-bat rituals rival those of a Hindu mystic, really adjust to tighter limits on their behavior? Listen...