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...inadvertently, trashes the memory of the only person who has actually lived inside a bubble. David Vetter, of Woodlands, Texas, died in 1984 at age 12 from severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), the most serious form of the disease. Doctors tried to keep David germ-free by putting a plastic barrier between him and the world. It ultimately proved ineffective, and soon afterward, new treatments, including bone-marrow transplants, came along to make such experiments less urgent. Nonetheless, about half the 50 kids born each year with this type of immune deficiency still die before reaching adulthood...
Conventional laptops, with their fragile keyboards, delicate screens and sensitive, plastic-encased electrical systems, are accidents waiting to happen. Not their ruggedized kin: they offer tough magnesium cases, hard drives encased in protective gel, insulated Coke-proof keyboards...
...have ever drooled over the items in the Hold Everything catalog, restrain yourself. According to Ellen Langan, the $100-an-hour Seattle whiz who streamlined the Unguez bedroom, overly elaborate storage systems are part of the problem. "There are too many choices!" she says. "Going out and buying more plastic bins isn't going to do it for you." Instead kids need to learn to cut back early on, by thinking, for instance: Now that my birthday is coming, which toys will I give away to make room for more...
HOURGLASS SPACE SPROUT Burger King The hourglass can be opened, and the candy-like plastic balls are easy to swallow...
...Spiegelman will also be appearing on bookshelves again. He has two new projects coming out in the next months. "Jack Cole and Plastic Man," co-written with Chip Kidd, will be a softcover published by Chronicle books in September. It reprints the essay Spiegelman wrote about Cole and his creation for the New Yorker, but will be "profusely, wildly, insanely illustrated," according to Kidd...