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...also the parents' responsibility to be aware of a child's life online. "Kids know so much about the computer that some parents just throw up their hands," says Patti Agatston, a counselor with Cobb County Schools' prevention-intervention program in Georgia. "Don't do that," she says. Instead, parents should keep their eyes open. "Parents are totally clueless that some of this even exists," Aftab says...
...downside of being an actor is that you can't act until somebody hires you," complains Patti Davis. So the President's daughter decided to become her own boss by turning writer. The result is Home Front (Crown; $15.95), to be published in March, a reflective novel about a 1960s college student who defies her politician father to become involved in the antiwar movement. Davis, 33, who co-wrote the book with Novelist Maureen Strange Foster, admits that some of the story is autobiographical. "I used kernels of truth and experience," she says, "and embellished the rest." Davis found fiction...
...five children's books on Sue, who stars in an upcoming DVD called Journey to the Land of the Dinosaurs. The Sue industry does have its limits, however. The museum nixed a proposal for an animated TV show featuring "Sue the Dancing Dinosaur." Explains Field Museum senior project manager Patti Tuomey: "She doesn't dance, and she never did. That idea trivializes the importance of her life." -By Wendy Cole
...blood between the fellow Democrats surfaced last January when Blagojevich ordered the closing of a waste dump operated by a distant cousin of his wife Patti. Her outraged father admitted helping the dump's owner but denied having any financial stake in it. And he shot back with pay-for-play allegations against his son-in-law's administration. Although Mell later retracted the charges, a grand jury investigation was launched, and Blagojevich aides have reportedly been subpoenaed. In more ways than one, Patti Blagojevich is caught in the middle. The Governor's office acknowledged last week that the first...
...passed a bill that lets Utah schools ignore the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law if its mandates conflict with state priorities or require state money to meet them. "They didn't bring tea to drop overboard, but that's about all that was missing," says a satisfied Patti Harrington, state superintendent of public instruction...