Word: calif
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think of every Baby Tap-A-Tune piano or Makeup Pretty Angelica picked by the yellow-capped pickers, packed by the blue-hatted packers and loaded by the gray-brimmed loaders at this 100,000-sq.-ft. eToys warehouse in Commerce, Calif., as another round fired in the retail-vs.-e-tail battle. Christmas is always war in the toy industry, and nowhere more so this year than online, where pure e-tailers like eToys are for the first time fighting on several fronts...
...planning attacks on locations around the world where New Year's revelers are expected to gather. While overseas bad guys like Bin Laden are the chief suspects, fears have also been raised about doomsday cults and crackpot racists in the U.S. Two middle-aged men were arrested in Sacramento, Calif., this month on charges of plotting to blow up two massive propane tanks. And federal agents are investigating the theft of nearly 1,000 lbs. of dynamite and ammonium nitrate from an Arizona rock quarry last week. While such incidents may be unrelated to the millennium, they are being closely...
...possibly have been capable of what some speculate was a crime of the coldest calculus--murder to avoid paying child support? Surely his weekly salary of $38,000 could cover that expense in addition to the $3,500 a month he was contributing to support a son in Sacramento, Calif...
...examination of e-commerce would be complete without a look at eBay, the online-auction business that is part swap meet, part town square. Senior writer Adam Cohen not only toured the company in San Jose, Calif., but also flew to Paris (ah, the sacrifices journalists make!) to have coffee with the company's elusive founder, Pierre Omidyar...
...synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew and Luke). The historical Jesus deserves better than a narrative dressed up in cute, up-to-date literalism. No wonder the Jesus on the cover was shedding tears. Price's words reflected pious ignorance. (THE REV.) ERNEST W. COCKRELL St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Saratoga, Calif...