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With hard checking and effective-if-not-pretty offense, Harvard turned the visiting Eagles into another stuffed-bird feast, oven-roasted in the cold confines of Bright...
...bird called the blackcap has been showing up in Britain lately, in droves. Seems these birds of the forest, which used to winter in the western Mediterranean, have changed their migratory routes. German researchers studied some blackcaps and their offspring, and report in Nature that the change is genetic; responding to some environmental signal, the birds' hard-wired migratory instructions have evolved in an astonishingly short 30 years...
...Barney is," says Standard & Poor's toy analyst Paul Valentine. Next year Hasbro intends to market an 18- in.-tall talking Barney. Plans for a network-TV special, a Barney movie, a line of books and a record deal are all in the works. Watch your flank, Big Bird...
Unlike Big Bird's Sesame Street, Barney & Friends is a simple, slow-paced show, more like an after-school play group than a slick TV production. In each episode, a multicultural cast of children uses imagination to bring Barney, a small stuffed animal, to full-size life (embodied by actor David Joyner inside the purple-and-green suit, with Bob West providing the voice). Together the children and Barney spend 30 nonviolent minutes exploring a theme -- ranging from recycling to counting -- through song, dance, crafts and creative play. Says creator Sheryl Leach: "It has a magical simplicity to it that...
...assortment of unaesthetic and utterly meaningless words. And there, comrades, lies the rub. Their complete uselessness means everyone will use them--simply for want of a more precise descriptive term. You'll thematize your timetable, your phone directory will be positively intertextual, and, my lord, is that a bird I see or have I got decentered subjectivity...