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Q Whatever happened to
The Lennon Sisters, who
were on The Lawrence Welk
Show in the 1950s and 60s? I

Q Can you tell me any-

thing about Jewel’s
new album? Why is it called
Q I always hear about golf stars like Phil
Mickelson and Stewart Cink going to
master coach Butch Harmon for lessons.
seem to remember they had
a problem with Welk.—Faye
Bush, Wilmington, N.C.
Sweet and Wild?—Donna M.
DeLuca, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Who is Harmon, and how much does he
charge for a lesson?—Glen Passin, Egg Har- A Two of the four original
Lennon Sisters, Diane

A “I have two halves to my

personality,” the Alaskan
singer-songwriter says. “Part
bor Township, N.J.

A The son of golf great and 1948 Mas-

of me is known for writing
sensitive songs and poetry;
Jewel: A biker babe I also ride a motorcycle.”
with a heart of gold
Which side was drawn to
bull-riding husband Ty Murray? “Part of him is this
macho guy who does a very dangerous thing,” Jewel,
36, says, “but he’s also very sweet and soft-spoken.”
ters champion Claude Harmon,
Butch, 66, played on the PGA Tour briefly, “but I
was very temperamental,” he says. “If every shot I
hit wasn’t perfect, I didn’t like it. I got in my own
way. I’ve always liked to teach—always had an eye
for it.” If you want to take advantage of that eye,
you’ll find him at the Butch Harmon School of
Golf in Las Vegas. But a private lesson will cost
you. “My fee is $1000 an hour,” Harmon says.
and Peggy, have retired. How-
ever, the other two, Kathy
and Janet, now perform with
Lennon sisters: All youngest sister Mimi as a trio,
was well with Welk
primarily at the Welk Resort
Theater in Branson, Mo. “We have the same Len-
non family blend and sound,” Kathy, 66, tells us.
Were there problems with Mr. Welk? Not really.
“He was like a grandfather to us—we were afraid
of him and we loved him,” Kathy says. “He was a
taskmaster, a mentor. It was an incredible schooling

Q Morgan Freeman seems

to be everywhere. How
Walter Scott asks...
for the entertainment world.”

many movies has he been in?

—Kathy Hayes, Richfield, Ohio Charles Barkley
NBA star and commentator
Q Can you tell me
about Band of

A At 73, the legend has made Horses, who were

DESMOND/ABC/GETTY (BARKLEY), ABC PHOTO ARCHIVES/GETTY (LENNON SISTERS), & REDFERNS/GETTY (BAND OF HORSES)
62 films. His latest gig is WS Sir Charles, is there any NBA player today just on tour with
hosting Through the Wormhole who reminds you of you? u? Pearl Jam?
With Morgan Freeman, a Sci- CB To be honest, no. I mean,n they don’t make I don’t
ence Channel series premiering g many 6'5" power forwards
ds anymore. k n o w Horses: Running wild
June 9, which explores mysteries Freeman: Blinded WS How do you transition ion from an incredible much about th
the group, but I love

PHOTOS BY EMMANS/STARTRAKSPHOTO (JEWEL), GALLO/RETNA (FREEMAN), TULLBERG/GETTY (WILSON),

such as time travel, black holes, with science career into life after basketball?
etball? Is it a challenge
g them!—Freedman,
them!—Freedma Philadelphia, Pa.
and the beginning of the universe. Has the series
cleared any of this up for Freeman? “Oh, heavens—
the clearer it gets, the muddier it gets,” he says. “The
to find that intensity?
CB No. I understand that hat I can
never recapture being Charles
A Lead singer and guitarist
Ben Bridwell
B
rural-indie
formed the
rural-ind band six years ago
idea that the time-space fabric of the universe is Barkley. I might do this,
his, I in Se
Seattle. His favorite gig
malleable—it’s mind-bending.” might do that, but it ain’t so far? “I guess probably
nothing like being a great
eat our
o first show with

Q Who picks the couples

who appear on The New-
lywed Game—host Carnie Wil-
son or someone else?—Eugene
Mossner, Saginaw, Mich.
player in your prime.
WS Why don’t you wearr
a necktie in the broadcast
Pearl Jam in Kan-
sas City,” Bridwell
says. “It was kind
booth? of terrifying to play
CB I don’t know how to o Barkley: an
a arena for the first
One of a

A “It’s a casting director,”

says Wilson, 42. “Which
Wilson: She even sounds like they’re casting actors,
tie one. I’ve worn a tie prob-
ably two or three times.
WS You just turned 47—do
ob-

—do you
kind
time. But we eended up doing okay,
surprisingly.
surprisinglyy. It was just such a relief
to get tha
that
h t und
under the belt.”
shocks herself but they are legitimately married think about turning 50?
people who are fun and vivacious, and I try to get
them to tell me the truth. This season, we had very
few barriers. I have a potty mouth, but I can’t believe
CB Yeah, I’m thinking g I got
three years to live—because
because
ain’t nothin’ happenin’ after
fter 50.
Q I heard tthat Nicolas Cage and
Richard Gere are brothers.
True?—Dawn
? D., Mobile, Ala.
I even asked some of those questions.” See photos of
Hollywood’s latest newlyweds at Parade.com/love
That’s the way I look at it.
A th pretended to be in
No, but they
the 1984 film The Cotton Club.

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 Matthew McConaughey
with Jessica Markowitz
and David Sanchez
Introducing
For the first time, PARADE has partnered with the national youth-service organization The
LEAGUE to honor—with special recognition by the U.S. Department of Education—high
school students who are changing their communities through service. We invited PARADE
readers to nominate students in five categories: economics, the environment, education, com-
munity, and health. Later this month, the 15 winners will be honored at a special ceremony in
Washington, D.C., sponsored by the ING Foundation. “Their entrepreneurial spirit is inspiring,”
says Education Secretary Arne Duncan. “These young people are our future leaders.”
FIRST TEAM
ECONOMICS
David Sanchez, 18 Project: Job-Link Racine
The Prairie School, Racine, Wis.
At 14, David Sanchez was on the way to his after-school restaurant job when
he saw a homeless man holding a “Will Work for Food” sign. Later, David
decided he wanted to give him his tips, but he never saw the man again.
“That experience bothered me,” he says, motivating him to launch Job-Link
Racine to help homeless and at-risk teens find work. Since 2008, David, now
a senior, has taught readiness training to more than 300 teens, secured interviews for 60, and
helped 30 land jobs in a tough economy. He also donates bus tokens and work clothes. “They
are no different than I am,” he says. David will attend Vanderbilt University this fall.
EDUCATION
Jessica Markowitz, 15 Project: Richard’s Rwanda-IMPUHWE
Garfield High School, Seattle, Wash.
Four years ago, Jessica Markowitz was moved by accounts of the 1994
genocide in Rwanda from a visiting speaker, Richard Kananga, who stayed
at her family’s Seattle home. His report of orphaned girls in the village of
Nyamata who couldn’t afford schooling especially broke her heart. So Jessica
started Richard’s Rwanda-IMPUHWE, a nonprofit organization to raise
money to educate the girls. “It takes about $40 for a girl to go to school for a year,” she says.
Jessica, a freshman, has hosted bake sales, spoken at conferences in Washington, D.C., and
will visit Rwanda for the fourth time this summer.
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HEALTH
Jordyn Schara, 15
Project: P2D2 (Prescription Pill and Drug Disposal)
Reedsburg Area High School, Reedsburg, Wis.
After hearing harrowing stories of “pharm par-
ties,” where teens bring pills from home, mix
them in a bowl like candy, and blindly take a
couple, freshman Jordyn Schara decided to cre-
ate P2D2 (Prescription Pill and Drug Disposal) to educate her
town about prescription-drug abuse and safe pill disposal. She
secured a community drop-box for unwanted pills, used Face-
book, YouTube, and T-shirts to get the word out, and persuaded
pharmacists and police officers to help. “There are always people
who’ll think you’re dorky, but the majority think it’s great,” she
says. “My generation can have a huge impact on the world.”
ENVIRONMENT
Katherine Stone, 16 Project: SOCKS (Save Our
Cats and Kittens Shelter), Fort Walton Beach High
School, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
When Katherine Stone was just 10, she vis-
ited SOCKS, a local no-kill cat shelter. While
there, she noticed a spill and, grabbing a broom,
cleaned it up. The staff were so impressed that
they invited her to become a volunteer. Over the past six years, she
has helped improve living conditions for thousands of animals. “I
just do what has to be done,” says Katherine, now a sophomore,
who has hosted car washes, auctions, and a golf tournament that
paid for construction of an extra room. She even learned to install
floors, drywall, a sink, and a toilet. “The unselfishness of this young
lady is beyond belief,” says shelter president Cecil DeMonbrun.
COMMUNITY
Kaylee Shirrell, 18 Project: Hats of Hope
Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg, Ind.
When Kaylee Shirrell learned that her grand-
mother had cancer two years ago, she knitted a
wool hat to keep her head warm during chemo-
therapy. “She cherished that gift,” Kaylee says.
“Then I started thinking about all the other can-
cer patients who could benefit from a hat.” That thought turned
into Hats of Hope, a project in which volunteers knit hats and
place them in cancer centers. Kaylee eventually hopes to start a
program in every state. In the fall, the senior plans to study forensic
chemistry at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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All-America Service Team
SECOND TEAM THIRD TEAM
ECONOMICS In five years, Texan Justin Churchman, 17, has built
15 houses for families who live in cardboard homes along the
El Paso–Juarez border. As a volunteer for Casas por Cristo, the
Coronado High School junior has recruited more than 75
volunteers and raised $43,000.
ENVIRONMENT Sophomore Kristen Powers, 16, founded the Chapel
Hill (N.C.) High School Green Tiger Campaign. Her eco-friendly club
is cultivating a community garden, hosts “recyclathons,” sells
reusable water bottles, and has asked administrators to reduce
the school’s carbon footprint.
EDUCATION Blake O’Connor, 18, held a children’s-book drive and
recruited his Freedom High School classmates to read to second-
graders at low-income schools in Tampa, Fla. The senior also
hosted a Dr. Seuss–themed festival that he hopes will become a
model for promoting literacy in other towns.
COMMUNITY Minnesota’s historic Rock Island Swing Bridge was
days from demolition when junior John Atkins, 17, and 60 students
from Simley High School in Inver Grove Heights got the governor to
halt its destruction. Then, with Facebook support, they helped raise
$3 million to convert the bridge into a recreational pier.
HEALTH More than 400 students have learned to defend
themselves against date rape and domestic violence thanks to
17-year-old Wellesley (Mass.) High School senior Thanh Pham’s
Empower Our Youth program. She started the nonprofit two years
ago to fund classes at inner-city Boston schools.
Matthew McConaughey says:
‘I Want to Do Some Good’
HREE YEARS AGO, ACTOR the team,’ so to speak,”
T Matthew McConaughey wanted to, as he
puts it, “do some good with the goods that
I had been given.” So he started the J. K.
Livin Foundation (it stands for “just keep livin’ ”),
an after-school program that encourages inner-city
he says. “You’ve got a
Goth kid from art class
doing something with
the kid who plays foot-
ball who’s working on a
high school students to improve their physical and project with the over-
mental health through exercises and teamwork. weight girl who wants to be a dancer. It’s an eclectic
The program now reaches more than 6000 stu- group that gives kids a safe place to go.”
dents in California and Texas. McConaughey found that after-school is a critical
“I get excited because I love kids,” McConaughey time to help students. “The most dangerous period for
says. “I wanted to work with 15- to 18-year-olds so kids is from the end of school until dark,” he says, “so
they could learn better life choices early.” we provide an environment that is healthy and proac-
The program provides adult guidance for the tive yet still cool and fun. Parents tell us that when our
kids. “We aimed for the students who ‘didn’t make kids come home, they’re not wound so tight.”
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ECONOMICS Montana junior Mariah Naegeli, 17, took over the
Thompson Falls Public Schools food drive, which her older
brother started, and created a competitive point system among
schools. This year’s contest netted more than 1,000 pounds of
food for the hungry in Thompson Falls.
ENVIRONMENT Since Elkridge, Md.’s Jacob Esposito, 17, became
president of Long Reach High School’s Environmental Club, the
senior has spearheaded the installation of a cooling tower to
minimize chemical waste and advocated for light sensors to
reduce energy use. What’s next? Recycling in cafeterias.
EDUCATION Junior Brianna Jacobs, 17, is one of 50 student mentors
at Normal (Ill.) Community West High School. The position calls on
upperclassmen to be role models for freshmen and at-risk students.
Brianna has mentored nine students in the last two years, meeting
with them daily to help them with school work and social stresses.
COMMUNITY In 2005, Zachary Swiatko, 18, and his sister created
Operation Underwear to collect new undergarments and socks for
homeless people in Kenosha, Wis. Zachary, now a senior, continues
to drum up donations from residents, clothing manufacturers, and his
classmates at Mary D. Bradford High School.
HEALTH After watching a documentary on autism, Akshay
Damany, 17, theorized that tennis—an individualized sport with
clear rules—could improve coordination in autistic kids and help
them move into team sports. The Emmaus High School junior is
now teaching tennis to autistic kids in Allentown, Pa.
J. K. Livin encourages students to write about
their problems in a journal. “It relieves some stress,”
McConaughey says. “They don’t have to show what
they write to anyone
else. I want them to
celebrate their victo-
ries—that’s most im-
portant—and to think
of the times when they
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“I’m really inspired by this new generation that
is attacking service with fervor—to be so unself-
ish and say, ‘Hey, I want to spend my summer or
weekends helping people. I want to give my after-
school time.’ I sure wasn’t doing that when I was
their age.” —Jeanne Wolf
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 IntelligenceReport
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Parade.com/intel Contributors: Dana Wilkie and Drew Jubera

The Rise of
ENERGY
Bell Bend
Nine Mile Point

Nuclear Power Fermi Calvert

Cliffs

he newest nuclear power seeing in-

T
Callaway
plant in the U.S. opened terest in
nearly 15 years ago, but new nuclear
many more may be com- plants that we North
ing soon. Right now, nuclear reac- haven’t seen in Anna
tors generate 19% of electricity in 30 years,” says
the U.S., compared with 80% in Scott Burnell of River Bend Grand Gulf
France, 44% in Sweden, 29% in the Nuclear Regulato- Harris
Japan, and 15% in Canada. In the ry Commission (NRC).
U.S., 104 reactors are operating in 31 A new reactor in Tennessee is William Lee
states. Illinois has the most, with 11, scheduled to come online by 2013, V.C. Summer
followed by Pennsylvania with nine two more are under construction in the previ- South
Texas Turkey
and South Carolina with seven. Georgia, and the NRC is reviewing ously rural Point
A 2005 law offering incentives for applications for another 21 reactors areas hosting Vogtle
Bellefonte
nuclear-energy companies created a at 17 sites, shown on this map. nuclear plants are now
Comanche Peak Levy County
surge of proposals, and President Some experts, including Ed more densely populated.
Obama has committed billions Lyman with the Union of Con- Says Lyman: “The public A proposed new reactor at or near an existing nuclear plant
in federal loan guarantees to aid cerned Scientists, note that new needs to ensure that emergency A proposed reactor at a site that has not previously produced
nuclear power
construction of new plants. “We’re reactors create new risk, and that planning is adequate.” Source: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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ECONOMY
Tax Breaks for Films Get Mixed Reviews
Even if you never go to the movies, you’re contributing
to Hollywood production budgets. That’s because while
states are cutting services to plug massive budget short-
falls, many are still giving away tens of
millions of dollars in tax incentives to
production companies that shoot mov-
ies and TV shows inside their borders.
Now, some states are starting to re-
think those subsidies.
“While we’re cutting funding for
schools, we’re sending millions to Holly-
wood,” says Michigan state representa-
tive Tom McMillin (R.). Two years ago, when Michigan upped
Told Us at Parade.com
In 2002, just five states offered such discounts to pro- PARADE recently reported on
duction companies. Today, 44 do. “Filmmakers bid states the debate over whether to
against one another and reap the benefit,” says economist try accused 9/11 mastermind
Mark Robyn of the Tax Foundation, a Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a
nonpartisan research group. “States are civilian court. We asked readers:
engaged in this escalating bidding war
to win over a marginal amount of busi- Where should
ness. It’s a race to the bottom.”
Some states agree. Kansas and Iowa
terror suspects
have suspended their programs. Arizo- be tried?
na’s will expire this year, and Pennsylva-
nia reduced the amount of its credit. In civilian
Supporters of the tax credits say they help create jobs courts: 60%

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its rebate to 42%, productions such as Clint Eastwood’s
Gran Torino rushed in. But tax breaks cost Michigan $100
million in fiscal year 2010 and are projected to cost $120
million next year. Overall, states gave away $1.8 billion in
incentives to Hollywood between 2006 and 2008, according
to a recent analysis by the Associated Press.
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and boost local economies. After Georgia upped its tax
credit to 30% two years ago, film and TV production more By military
than doubled, to $716 million in 2009. “Given the economic
times we’ve been in, this is one of the few positives,” says
commissions: 40%
Bill Thompson, head of Georgia’s film commission. “It’s an
industry that’s actually grown.” The polls are still open.
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 Pro basketball is in need of a game change
By Stephen Fried
RO BASEBALL MIGHT
be America’s pastime and
pro football our most popu-
lar and profitable game, but
professional basketball, our
other major homegrown
sport, has the most recog-
nizable and exciting American
athletes in the world. Yet at the same
time, the National Basketball Association (NBA)
is facing one of its most challenging moments ever.
The league is finishing what commissioner Da-
vid Stern concedes to PARADE is its most eco-
nomically disastrous season ever—$400 million in
the red, nearly twice what it has lost in tough years
before. Fewer fans are going to games, the result of
a bad economy but also of what a veteran NBA ob-
server calls “too many meaningless games, too many
watered-down rosters.” The competitive balance of the
league could be further upset on July 1, when LeBron
James and the most gifted group of hoops free agents
ever will be able to switch teams. And next year’s ex-
piration of the collective bargaining agreement raises
the possibility of a new relationship among the NBA,
its players, and its fans, along with the threat of a
strike or lockout. As a season-ticket holder for the
Philadelphia 76ers and a die-hard fan, I’m concerned
about what the future holds for the league, but I’m
also intrigued by the prospects for change.
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NBA attendance was soft again this year—18 years, you’ll see an NBA with divisions in Europe.”
of 30 teams saw a drop—and the only reason the He places much of the blame for the league’s prob-
numbers weren’t worse was the desperate ploys some lems on contractual issues, including guaranteed
teams used to fill seats. At 76ers games, traditional salaries that have locked teams into paying players
halftime entertainment has been almost entirely re- exorbitant sums of money. The NBA’s economic
placed by local school dance troupes, whose mem- structure “does not work,” he says, “and we need a
bers and families are sustainable business model.”
charged admission The balance of power within the
and urged to sell tick- NBA has been skewed for a while.
ets themselves. In the past few years, perhaps only
When I ask about five teams have seriously contended
the empt y seats, for championships, and in the past
commissioner Stern 26 years, only seven cities have en-
answers: “What the joyed victory parades. Compare that
attendance shows is to the NFL, where nine different
that markets are very
different. Some are
D i
Despite teams have won Super Bowls in a
dozen years. And the amazing free-
d
more sensitive to the stars like Kobe agent class up for grabs next month—
quality of the product
on the floor,” seem-
Bryant and LeBron which also includes Dwyane Wade,
Chris Bosh, and Dirk Nowitzki—
ingly acknowledging James, the NBA could lead to a greater disparity in tal-
that some fans are
stay ing home be-
will lose $400 ent, since the same handful of teams
are likely to stockpile the All-Stars.
cause of weak games. million this year. Even more important to the NBA’s
However, he points to future is the 2011 expiration of the col-
tweaks the NBA made this year that created faster lective bargaining agreement, which establishes the
and higher-scoring games. Stern is also encour- rules for the division of revenues, player contracts,
aged by the league’s explosive growth both online trades, and the salary cap. While stalled talks could
and abroad and promises, “Over the next several continued
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How to Fix the NBA | continued

lead to a strike or lockout—the last possessions,” Falk says. “Or create a

one wrecked the 1998–99 season four-point play. People thought the
with the cancellation of 30-plus tthree-point shot would destroy the
games—few believee that will hap- game, but it added to it instead.”
pen. But as negotiations
tions heat up, th
thee
3. RAISE T THE AGE LIMIT.
NBA is head- ““You should have
ing into a fas- to be out of
cinating period d high sschool
ch
when there are re for three years
more chances ces to pplay
lay in th
the
to change, im- NBA,”
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NB A,” Falk
F
prove, or mess sss says. Pla
Playing
up the game
than everer before.
Attendance is college h
would allow
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“ We need to down for 18 of the athletes to de-

athlet
grow this game,”
says superagent
league’s 30 teams. velop a fan base
that they could
Davidid Falk, who carry with them
car
represented Mi- into the pros.
int
chael Jordan and reps other top play
play-
lay-
4. ENCOURA
ENCOURAGERAGE
A QUIRK.
ers today. The changes are “going
i g to be
“There’s a reason why Charles Bark-
“T
very, very extreme, because I think thelley, who
ho is reti
retired, is still getting
times are extreme.” endorsements,” t says Sports Illus-
Stern says changes are up to the trated writer Jon Wertheim, who
league’s rules committee but admits has covered the NBA for 13 years,
to one “quirk as a fan.” He thinks the “and, say, Tim Duncan and Carmelo
offensive interference rules should be Anthony aren’t. Today, the play-
abolished, letting “anyone do anything ers with personality often have the
with the ball above the rim.” Here, ac- color bleached out of them.” Blog-
cording to a few NBA watchers, are ger Bethlehem Shoals of FanHouse
six more ways to revive the sport we .com advises, “They should Twitter
love—some practical, some improb- all the time. It could be a lifeline to
able, all worth considering. these guys’ personalities.”
5. CHANGE
SIX THE TRADE
SAVES SHARE YOUR IDEAS RULES.
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If You Submitted A Claim For Medical Payments Coverage
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April 6, 2010, Or You Are A Healthcare Provider Who Provided Medical Services
To Such A Person, You May Be Part Of A Class Action Settlement.
As part of the settlement, you may be eligible to file
a claim to receive a cash payment. This notice is
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Plaintiffs Winnie Madison and Geraldine Huff allege
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Hartford agrees to pay valid and timely claims
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strangest remote control in history. It’s
huge—158 pounds and nearly six feet
long—which makes it hard to lose in the
couch. It has no buttons and needs no
batteries, which is nice. Plus, it’s quite
sleek-looking.
Okay, the remote is me.
That’s the audacious idea behind Mi-
crosoft’s soon-to-be-released video-game system: No joy-
stick, no handheld device at all. Your body is the controller.
The device—code-named Project Natal—features a high-
tech sensor that sits next to your TV and tracks your every
movement. When you kick, your video-game character
kicks. When you jump, your guy jumps. When you wiggle
your rear end…you
get the idea. You
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system as an addi-
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Zane,
according to the geek 3, and Jasper, 6, really got into the game.
crowd, the company might not be blowing digital smoke. “Na-
tal is pretty astounding,” says Brian Lam, editorial director of
the popular tech blog Gizmodo. “It goes beyond what made
Wii so cool and easy for moms, dads, and regular people. I
think it could be the most important development in video
games since the joystick itself.” Microsoft refuses to say how
much the device will cost, but industry experts are making
guesses that range from less than $100 to nearly $200—on top
of the price of an Xbox 360, if you don’t already have one.
Microsoft representatives are quick to point out that Proj-
ect Natal isn’t just about games. Through its partnership
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with Netflix, users will be able to flip through their queue
with a wave of the hand, then simply say “Play movie” to
start the show. In the future, they hope the system will be
used for shopping (try on clothes by superimposing virtual
garments on your virtual self ) and even companionship (get
a virtual friend who can sense when you’re upset or happy—
or just weirded out that you have a virtual friend).
As a journalist, I had to check this out. And as kids, my
6-year-old and my 3-year-old twins had to come with me.
The first game we tried was a mixture of dodge-
ball and handball. I swatted my hand and my little red
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avatar smacked the ball down the court, where it popped balloons it’s the most advanced of the new trend of movement-based video
and then bounced back. My son Jasper, 6, and I began waving and To play, you games—Sony has its own system coming out this fall, Move, which
kicking wildly. uses a handheld controller similar to the Wii’s.
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Etiquette doyenne Emily Post had
nothing on my mother
Learning
Manners
in
Real World
the
A
LONG, LONG TIME AGO, I
was a college kid about to leave for an
internship in Washington, D.C.—
and terrified I wouldn’t fit in.
It was December 1978. If you saw
photos of me from that time, you
might think I was insecure because
my Gloria Steinem glasses, padded shoulders, and
platform shoes made me look like Herman Munster
in drag. Alas, no. Fashion-wise, I thought I was one
sizzling-hot chick. My fear was that I was woefully
unprepared for a world of finger bowls, petits fours,
and the inevitable avalanche of engraved invitations
tucked between layers of tissue paper.
Oh, go ahead and laugh. Look, I’d spent my entire
childhood in Ashtabula, Ohio, listening to my mother
yack about Jackie Kennedy as if she were a frequent
houseguest. I thought every
woman in Washington was still I thought Post’s
wearing pillbox hats and gloves in
summer. What did I know?
book would help me
So for Christmas, I asked my navigate the halls
parents for The New Emily Post’s
Etiquette—the 13th edition of
of Congress.
the classic, written by Emily’s What did I know?
granddaughter-in-law, Elizabeth
Post. I figured this chunky book of man--
nerly minutiae would lubricate my
navigation through the halls of Con-
gress like grease on a bike chain.
It didn’t take long on Capitol Hill
—20 minutes, as I recall—before I
realized I needed a lot less Emily Postt
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and way more
Muhammad
Ali to survive
the sidestep
shuffle of male le staffers
masquerading as public servants. The closest I came
to a finger bowl was the night I wrapped my hand
around a crystal ashtray and threatened to hurl it at
a deputy press secretary’s head.
Ah, the warm, fuzzy memories triggered by the
recent passing of Elizabeth Post, who died in April
at the age of 89. I lost track of her 13th edition some
time ago, but I do have a copy of the 17th, penned
by Emily’s great-granddaughter-in-law, Peggy Post.
I gave it to my daughter, who left it behind with her
Beanie Babies when she went off to college.
What I didn’t understand in 1978 was that my
mother had already taught me
everything I needed to know
about manners. More than three
decades later, my life is still driven
by her mantra of my youth: Don’t
marry him until you see how he
treats the waitress.
To Mom, good manners were
all about kindness, which tilled
fertile soil for social justice. She knew
fer
we’d cross paths every day with people
w She reached for my hand, and blubbering fool
who were used to being mistreated.
She was a nurse’s aide married to a
factory worker, so any bad behavior
vvisited on an hourly wage-earner felt
Emily Post
personal. She regularly rattled off the
pe
by Conn
Connie Schultz
list of people
she expected d
us to treat with
ith
the same respect we’d ’d give
i our
pastor and our parents: clerks,
cashiers, waitresses, grocery bag-
ggers, cafeteria workers, house-
kkeepers—the list grew with time.
No child of hers was going to bul-
ly someone just because she could.
I remember 11-year-old me return-
ing to a drugstore counter, my face
in
oon fire after my mother ordered me
to apologize for rolling my eyes and
sighing when the clerk accidentally
si
dropped my change on the floor.
dr
“You get to go home and sit on
the porch swing,” Mom said, “but
th
she’s going to be working on her feet
sh
all day long.”
As it turned out, I would one day
meet Peggy Post. I was assigned to interview her
when she came to Cleveland. As a newly single
mother, I was dreading our encounter after my re-
search dug up this 1973 gem of a quote in The New
York Times: “A divorce is a record of failure, and you
don’t usually announce
a failure. Personally, I READ MORE
don’t think it’s anything
PHOTOS BY NAU/GETTYIMAGES (MOTHER & CHILD) AND BETTMANN/CORBIS (POST)
For other stories
to crow about.” by Pulitzer Prize–
Greaaaat. winning journalist
I agreed to meet Post Connie Schultz
at the Ritz-Carlton— of the Cleveland
where else?—and hoped Plain Dealer, visit
Parade.com/schultz
that my marital status
would never come up.
She was warm and gracious, and we got through the
interview without any reference to my personal life.
When I closed my notebook, she asked what the rest
of my day held. I told her I was the softball coach for
my daughter’s team and we had practice coming up.
Then I inexplicably blurted out that I was recently
divorced and knew that was nothing to be proud of.
that I was, I started to tear up.
“Ugh,” I said, wiping my eyes. “I’m so sorry.”
She smiled.
“Totally understandable,” she said, softly. “And
not the least bit inappropriate.”
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