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...look jaded, bored, if not actually stoned. You may want to play with them, but they don't want to play with you. And this matters, because when you watch little girls play, you realize that it's not just about fashion; it's about fantasy. Barbie joins the circus; Barbie teaches the teddy bears to read. You get the feeling that the Bratz dolls would come to life and protest if you told them they were entering a spelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret of Barbie's Rivals | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Annenberg is full of freshmen making polite small talk about where they come from. Max. A Binder ’09, though, has a unique answer: the circus. Before coming to Harvard, Binder spent his entire life traveling with the circus and performing 340 shows per year. With a father who founded the Big Apple Circus and a mother who is a fifth-generation equestrian, Binder began his circus career at age four when he played what he describes as “the cute kid” in a variety of circus acts. Two years ago, the circus needed...

Author: By Amanda C. Shanks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nonsense Upon Stilts | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...probability and statistics at the University of Maryland; his mother works at NASA. Brin from an early age was fascinated with numbers; his father gave him his first computer, a Commodore 64, when he turned 9. Brin's other love is gymnastics, and he studied flying trapeze at a circus school in San Francisco. He has lately taken up springboard diving. Michael Brin recently visited the West Coast to check in on his son, the billionaire. "Sergey was a good boy," Michael wisecracks, "when he was asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of The Real Google | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...Qaeda. I'm the enemy. This trial is a circus." ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, the only person brought to trial in the U.S. for involvement in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, while being ejected from the courtroom on the first day of jury selection in his trial. He was thrown out four times over the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...family was having dinner. "Emily expressed her wishes for a quick recovery for Michelle, and was also excited to be part of the US team," said David Raith, executive director of the US Figure Skating Association and the first to inform the Hughes family. By early morning, the media circus had already set up its tents outside the Hughes home in Long Island, New York, and the family had to unplug its phone at 4am so they could get some sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwan Withdraws from Olympics | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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