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This spring, Toys "R" Us tested the Zhu Zhu Pets in the Phoenix area. "When the first numbers came in, we could hardly believe them," says Storch. "We fell in love immediately." So have consumers. Cepia also executed a clever marketing plan. During the summer, the company hosted hamster-demonstration events at Major League Baseball games, of all places. The Zhu Zhus attended ball games in Atlanta, Arizona, Philadelphia, Texas, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Cepia also actively courted the mommy bloggers, sponsoring some 250 "hamster parties" at the homes of bloggers across the country. Cepia shipped product to the moms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zhu Zhu Mania: Hamster Toys Are Ruling Christmas | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Halsey, who came from a family of linguists, was fluent in Mandarin among other languages and interested in Asian culture. He once wrote a physics paper combining his interests in linguistics and science, explaining Einsteinian theory in Chinese...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cabot Alum Dies at Age 26 | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...strong performance against Harvard was a surprise, primarily because it came immediately after Parker reprimanded his team for a lackluster practice the day before...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Nets Four Goals in Defeat | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...underlying causes of some of the most troubling developments of the decade, you can see some striking common denominators. The raft of financial problems, our war with radical Islam, the collapse of GM and much of our domestic auto industry and even the devastation brought about by Katrina all came about at least in part or were greatly exacerbated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...mujahedin, who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s and provided much of the training for bin Laden's foot soldiers. But our friendly freedom fighters turned into foes. In 1992 al-Qaeda bombed a hotel in Yemen, hoping to kill American Marines bound for Somalia. Then came the first World Trade Center bombing, in 1993. Three years later, the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel. In 1996 and 1998, bin Laden issued fatwas calling for Muslims to rise up and kill Americans. Making good on bin Laden's word, al-Qaeda blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

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