By Jae-Ha Kim
Chicago Sun-Times
February 29, 2000
Got kids? If so, then the Spring issue of Science at Home is definitely worth a peek.
Already popular with parents who home school their children, the magazine is laid out in a way that makes it easy to read, even for the littlest members of your household. This issue includes a cute article that explains the food chain: “There are two main types of living things: plants and animals. (You are an animal.) Plants stay in one place and make their own food. (They don’t have mouths.) You, a mouse, and an elephant have more in common than you think. All three of you have to find food to eat. Some animals eat the plants for food. Some animals eat other animals for food. And some animals eat a combination of plants and animals for food. Which kind of animal are you?”
Tatyana Ali graces the Fall issue of another magazine, but this time, it’s not fashion or music related. MAVIN is billed as the periodical for “the mixed race experience” and Ali, whose father is East Indian and whose mother is Panamanian, speaks about why African-American isn’t really the proper classification for her: “I remember when I was applying to [Harvard] and they had, `What’s your ethnicity?’ And I didn’t put `other,’ because some people do that. But I knew that `Afro-American’ meant black, so I checked that off. Culturally, I was brought up [Afro-Caribbean]. The culture is different.”
