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...year-old says that sometimes his ideas are met with incredulity. For instance, people often are initially skeptical of his "Skyro" invention, which is a plastic, cylindrical-shaped toy that "flies horizontally, like a laser, for hundreds of feet, and doubles as a bracelet...

Author: By Rebecca W. Carman, | Title: From Flying Cars to Expanding Minds | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

...Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had assuaged the cultural elites of New York and Boston at the end of the 19th century; welcome to the dynamo, to the total plan, the slick shell housing, the fins and flanges, the didactic sheen of stainless steel, the Aztec-style bracelet of imperishable Bakelite. Goodbye, Hell's Kitchen; hello, skyscraper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Back to the Lost Future | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

What a funny story. Two babies were accidently switched in a California hospital this weekend. Not until Linda Boggeri got home and snipped off the name-tag bracelet on the child she thought was her own, did she realize that it was Chloe Amzallag, not her child Meagan in her arms...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Baby Swap | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

Only Linda Boggeri, who happened to read the name on the bracelet as she was putting it in a scrapbook, realized that the switch had occured. The other family was oblivious. What if Mrs. Boggeri hadn't read the name in her scrapbook for three years, or five, or 11. What to do then...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Baby Swap | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

...what if Mrs. Boggeri didn't catch the hospital's mistake, what if four years later the child she brought home died? Looking in the scrapbook she discovered the bracelet and realized the babies had been switched. Would she then be entitled to get her real daughter back from the Amzallags, claiming genetic defect...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Baby Swap | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

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