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...Barbie market is very, very strong," says Sandi Holder, owner of the world's sole Barbie-only museum, located in Union City, Calif. And she should know: her biennial Barbie auction did well this year, despite the economy. Holder, who gave up her career as a pediatric intensive-care nurse in order to pursue her Barbie passion, even takes the cake with a world record: in 2004 she auctioned off for $27,000 a "#1" Barbie, the first-ever Barbie doll, which debuted in March 1959 at New York City's World Toy Fair...
...Similar efforts are being made across the island. In Kaohsiung, the government in 2008 opened a software park to spur tech start-ups alongside the city's traditional export factories. Nationally, Ma's administration has targeted six "flagship" industries for investment and development: biotech, health care, high-end agriculture, tourism, green energy, and creative and cultural businesses such as traditional arts and pop music. The government intends to support these sectors by providing financing, improving the capabilities of state research institutes and other measures. "We are keenly aware these industries in five to 10 years will be the major industries...
Flanagan grossly understates the complexity of the causes of infidelity and divorce in the U.S. The world is not divided between loving couples and divorced "casual sadists" who don't care about their kids. Many parents continue to care for and nourish their children, as my ex-wife and I do our daughter, and have a decent relationship with each other. Flanagan avoids entirely the subject of spouses' irresponsible acts other than infidelity and misses the point that when the failings of one or both parents, including extreme ones like spousal abusiveness and alcoholism, make for a miserable environment...
...sell coffee can try to sell Kaffeeklatsches. The Washington Post was embarrassed this month by a leak of its plans to charge up to $25,000 for lobbyists and executives to sponsor "salons" with public officials and the reporters who cover the fields they work in, like health care. "Spirited? Yes," a flyer said of the promised talks. "Confrontational? No." Journalism? Someday it just might...
...Crime-Dog Mayor The centerpiece of Booker's campaign was a promise to improve public safety in Newark. "You're a children's foundation, you're a health-care foundation - don't you know that if a kid gets shot, every one of the issues you care about gets undermined?" Booker says...