Eric Scheske

> Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn may wind up portraying legendary physicist Albert Einstein for a joint U.S.-Italian TV film production. [http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060919-072707-7105r] Let the jokes begin! What's next? Paris Hilton as St. Therese?

It's actually a sad thing, but the joke upside is immense: > Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his

Great piece in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly about overzealous (a/k/a "helicopter," "nauseating," "obnoxious") parents [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200610/tsing-loh]. It's an essay/review of four books that take a look at parents who wreck their

The current issue of U.S. News & World Report has a pretty good cover story about Myspace.com, the teenage social networking website that has more than 100 million profiles [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060910/18myspace.htm] (remember, the population of the U.S. is only

From The Atlantic Monthly: [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200610/calendar] [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200610/calendar] > At the current clip of one birth every eight seconds, a death every twelve, and an immigrant entering the country every thirty-one, the 300-millionth American should show up, one way or

The Benedict Blog might have the best coverage [http://www.popebenedictxvifanclub.com/blog/2006/09/pope-benedict-xvi-on-faith-reason-and.html] .