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- Taking away teens' dreams, rest
Joshua Knippel, 16, plays basketball at Lackland AFB's Stacey Junior/Senior High School in San Antonio, Texas, and on game nights, he sometimes doesn't get to bed until close to midnight.
- For the fridge
lIf you have a senior at home getting ready to graduate and head off to work or college, you may want to pick up a copy of “97 Things To Do Before You Finish High School” (Zest Books, $14.95) by Steven Jenkins and Erika Stalder.
- In fast order, baby name can go from original to ordinary
When it comes to baby names, unusual is the new ordinary. Just look at the 10 most popular names of 2007 from BabyCenter.com, a Web site for expecting and new parents. Head of the class is Aiden for boys and Sophia for girls.
- Rated G
Broadway San Diego at the San Diego Civic Theatre played host over the holidays to this contemporary musical comedy about a popular high school basketball star and a shy, academically gifted newcomer.
- THE REEL SCOOP WHAT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW
'Juno' and 'P.S. I Love You' are rated safe for teens
'Juno'
Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content and language. What it's about: Teenagers have sex; she gets pregnant and decides to have a baby and give it up for adoption.
- Senior Scene
- MARSHA KAY SEFF OUR PARENTS, OURSELVES
Irma and Isabel are just a couple of bead buddies
I met Irma and Isabel in my favorite bead store, where they were buying the makings for necklaces and bracelets. The two were having so much fun choosing just the right colors and shapes that I was compelled to stop and chat with them.
- By the numbers
5,000: The number of yearly deaths of men and women 20 and younger from underage alcohol use, according to the U.S. Surgeon General. Alcohol is the No. 1 drug problem among youth.
- For religion's big hitters, it's Yankee Stadium
Baseball is often rhapsodized as a religion in America. It makes sense then that Yankee Stadium is a stamping ground for popes. The only two who have set foot on U.S. soil have celebrated Mass in the Bronx, in the most famous sports arena this side of the Colosseum.
- Weekly Offerings
VeggieTales' second foray from cartoons to movie making opens next weekend. “The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything” features talking vegetables who go from dinner show to reluctantly helping a damsel in distress.
- Religion and ethics calendar
- Transplanted Assyrians see culture dying
MODESTO – Isaac Samow's Assyrian Christian ancestors have occupied Mesopotamia for millenniums, surviving innumerable conquests and massacres.
- Some conservative Christians mobilize for AIDS fight
The matter-of-fact display on prostitution was startling enough. Then, a large remote-controlled condom floated above the conference hall.
- Professor asks tough questions of Muslims
PRINCETON, N.J. – On the streets of the Arab world, Amaney Jamal, a Princeton University politics professor, asks questions that can get her put under surveillance, kicked out of the country, thrown in jail or worse.
- Survey Says
62: Percentage of the public in favor of capital punishment for people convicted of murder, according to a 2007 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
- RELIGION ROUNDUP
Foundation's grant backs Israel trips
A local foundation has given $2.5 million to a program that sends young Jews to Israel to learn more about their roots.
- NIELSENS
With Pats-Giants, NFL the real winner
Television had its biggest hit of the season last weekend. The New England Patriots' clinching of a perfect season with a Saturday night win over the New York Giants was seen by an estimated 34.5 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research.
- Night stalker: Best of the late night
- NANCY M. REICHARDT
Soap summaries
- TELL ME ABOUT IT CAROLYN HAX
Lawyer rides brakes with mechanic
I feel like a jerk. I am going on a date with a great guy who thinks I'm beautiful and wonderful and who is sweet and engaging. Thing is, I'm a lawyer; he's an auto mechanic. And this gives me pause.
- HEY, CHERIE! CHERIE BENNETT
True friendship is a true gift of life
I want to know if I am weird. I am a 16-year-old girl, and I have one friend. I know a lot of people and I am not antisocial, but I have just one person I would call my friend. Her name is Cassie, and we have been friends since she moved to my town in fifth grade.
- DEAR ABBY
Father sees that his son is going to follow pop's miserable marriage map
I have been faithfully married for more than 20 years. My wife and I are known as the “cute couple” who still hold hands in public, take time to play together, and never say a negative word about each other in public.
- 'Cashmere' takes us into lives of ladies in the business world
The “Sex and the City” movie won't be out for months, but if you are in desperate need of a fab fix, ABC's “Cashmere Mafia” is perfectly capable of sweeping you away. It's not as sumptuous as the real thing, but it's no itchy rip-off, either.
- Rickman is good, even when he's playing the bad guy
Alan Rickman isn't a bad guy. He just often plays one. Bad guys like Gruber in “Die Hard,” Marston in “Quigly Down Under” and the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.”
- Heavy petting is expected at these parties
Tupperware parties have gone to the dogs. With pet owners demanding increasingly elaborate goods and services for their animals, one of the latest strategies in the $40.8 billion pet industry is taking its cue from the genius idea behind hawking plastic containers: displaying the products in living rooms and inviting friends and neighbors to come over and check them out.
- Pet Calendar
- TV
- Horoscope
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