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...have since put down their picket signs and concluded deals with the University, leaving the liberal student activists searching for a new cause. The heady days of Tent City are gone, and the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) is struggling to redefine its purpose. Its recent activities, including a bake sale and rallies for security guards, have failed to capture the interest of the student body. PSLM is squandering its time, energy and credibility...
DIED. JOSEPH STEINER, 95, co-founder of Kenner toys, producer of such hits as Play-Doh, the Easy-Bake Oven and the Close 'N Play Phonograph; near Cincinnati, Ohio. Steiner stumbled upon the idea for his 1947 Bubble Rocket while researching soap bubbles...
...Bakken's bake-off also had a third contestant: Gea Johnson, a newcomer to the U.S. bobsled team who was posting incredible start times with Warner. When Johnson won the push-off, Racine decided to act, and, as America's top gun pilot, laid claim to the top gun grunt. She told her partner and best friend, Jen Davidson, that she was out and Johnson was in. (Racine had reassured Davidson that their slowing times would not affect their partnership.) Warner lost the push athlete she wanted, and failed to perform up to speed at trials. Davidson took the matter...
TOYS Beyond the Xbox, it's a time for throw-backs, as kids turn to GI Joe, old-fashioned rescue heroes (Fisher-Price's fire-fighting Billy Blazes, right), even '70s-era color-and-bake plastic Shrinky Dinks (nostalgia appeals to baby boomers). One sign of patriotic times? Kay-Bee Toys reports an unexpected best-seller: an interactive quiz game on U.S. Presidents...
...through grey smoke. But if black smokes gets in your lungs you will die." At the Colin Powell Academy for Success in Long Beach, Calif., students wrote to the Secretary of State. "I think we should sign a peace treaty," offered sixth-grader Arlene Lopez. Many schools held bake sales to raise money for disaster-relief funds--helpful to the destitute but also therapeutic for the donors. Esther Giller, director of Maryland's Sidran Traumatic Stress Foundation, advises adults to "encourage children to become involved to overcome their feelings of helplessness...