Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Neopian pharmacy sometimes stocks a cure, but it's pricey, costing about 330 Neopoints. What's Chirita's owner, Wendy Mendoza, 10, of Atlanta, to do? One way to rack up the points would be to play any of the 110 free games on Neopets.com trying activities like bumper cars or chemistry for beginners. Then again, Wendy could also score by hunting for secret images in the site's virtual McDonald's, trying her hand at the Lucky Charms Super Search game or watching cereal ads in the General Mills theater--earning 150 points a commercial. Wendy visits the site...
...critics say websites like Neopets enable advertisers to skirt TV-industry practices that alert children to commercials with bumper announcements like, "Hey, kids, we'll be right back after these messages." Neopets Inc. press materials declare that advertisers can embed their brands "directly into entertaining site content." The practice isn't illegal, and Dohring says Neopets complies with the Children's Online Privacy Act, which bars companies from collecting personal information from Internet users under 13. Still, by embedding brand characters into games and activities, the ad "just goes unnoticed by the child, much less the parent," says McNeal...
...prices spike to an all-time high of $42.33 per barrel on June 1 before sliding back to $38.45 last week. The surge of attacks is prompting hundreds of expats to leave, and those who remain behind are scared stiff. "Guys are growing beards and putting 'Allah is Great' bumper stickers on their cars," says a longtime American resident. "A suit and a tie is tantamount to wearing a bulls-eye." For the third time in six weeks, the State Department issued a warning "strongly urging" some 25,000 Americans to quit the country - and a U.S. official told Time...
Some of the other sketches are way too sketchy, but there's much to be said for the rock stars, Waits and Pop, playing bumper cars with their egos. Murray is good, too, as a caffeine freak who slurps directly from the pot and goofily encounters rappers GZA and RZA, who apparently have a sideline in holistic medicine...
...round midnight at sydney university's hallowed MacLaurin Hall, and Akira Isogawa's spring/summer 2005 collection is running over two hours late. The tardiness is as unsurprising as the trays of champagne that circulate through the 500-plus crowd - like bumper-to-bumper traffic, shows have been in a gridlock of delay since morning. Hardly surprising, either, is the gasp that finally greets Akira's creations as they weave their way through the crowd: the Sydney-based designer has been perfecting his bowerbird brand of beauty since first showing solo at Australian Fashion Week in 1998. What is surprising...