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...dress designer Sue Ogden, a mother of three, created Mommy Doll, now manufactured by Tootsietoy of Chicago. Very contemporary Mommy comes with business suit, briefcase and baby for "Mommy Off to Work" activities, and a leisure outfit and baby carrier for errands. Total price: $25. Stern, 35, believes her brainchild offers kids the full range of female opportunities in the '90s. Says she: "This doll is a reflection of our times...
Lanier is a bit surprised by the hoopla his brainchild has generated. He concedes that expectations have flown far ahead of today's primitive technology, but he is convinced that virtual reality will someday live up to its name. He dreams of users creating their own artificial environment as fast as they can describe it. Even if these worlds are sketched roughly on the screen, he claims, the mind will fill in the missing details. "The internal experience of reality is much more a product of your central nervous system than of the actual external world," he says. "That...
...races are the brainchild of Eric Schechter, 30, a former Arizona real estate broker. He launched his first race in 1988, raising $150,000 for a Scottsdale drug-abuse prevention program. That success prompted him to found Great American Duck Races, which expects to handle 103 such events this year and post revenues of $1 million...
...program is the brainchild of Smith, a Ph.D. in Russian Studies, who initiated a set of executive exchanges this year as well. This spring Hartje, who was the Jets' seventh-round pick in 1986, met with Sokol-Kiev Coach Anatoly Bogdanov in Winnipeg...
Channel One, the latest brainchild of Knoxville media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle, began daily broadcasts last week to 400 junior and senior high schools. (An additional 2,500 have signed up, and will be on board by late May.) Each twelve-minute show provides a digest of the previous day's news, tailored for teens. Few educators dispute the value of such a show in teaching kids about world affairs. Nor do they deny the appeal of Whittle's sales pitch: for every school that agrees to take Channel One, Whittle will donate the satellite and video equipment needed to receive...