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Many of today's educational programs were dreamed up by computer-industry veterans who were dissatisfied with what was on the market for their children. One parent, Richard Devine, started Club KidSoft, a mail-order company that distributes a quarterly magazine and a CD-ROM disk that allows parents to try out 40 software programs for free in their homes. To buy one, consumers simply call a telephone number for a code that unlocks the rest of the program. Started last October, Club Kidsoft already has more than 40,000 subscribers...
...Creating a single parent familycate-gory...would create the incentive for twoearner couples...to enroll the spouse in his orher employer's plan," according to Green...
...harsh plot about a girl (Julie Bowen) who believes herself pregnant and, in her search for the perpetrator, enlists the daring town rebel (Paul Rudd). How cool is this guy? "I like bein' bored," he mutters. The film also has a nice parody of the hectoring speech every movie parent had to endure in a '50s teen movie. "Do you people ever sit down and talk to your kids?" a righteous detective asks the frazzled moms and dads. "I mean, really talk to them about sex and sexual diseases -- about the strange night world of twisted kicks and weird rituals...
...whole series revels in misanthropy; it parades the bullish stupidity of your average teenager, your average parent, your average everybody. The only things these movies romanticize are cars, cigarettes (each character smokes about three packs a minute) and the cliches of old teen pix. "Rumble at the playground tonight!" The young actors, children of the children of the '50s, might be speaking Old English, but they give the words an authentic spin. They know that the '50s was the cauldron in which the modern language of rebellion was forged...
...Census Bureau released a report showing that out-of-wedlock births are skyrocketing. In 1993 about 6.3 million children in the U.S., or more than a quarter of those under 18, lived with a single parent who had never married -- in contrast to 3.4 million...