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America's most fashionable doll appeared on grocery shelves last year. Breakfast With Barbie offers a bowl of itty-bitty hearts, bows and stars in lollipop colors. Ghostbusters contains marshmallow specters, and Nintendo Cereal Systems boasts fruity-flavored video-game characters. Hot Wheels, for fans of Mattell's little toy cars, blends marshmallow vehicles with frosted oat "mag wheels." Batman comes in an ominous black box, but the little bats inside are gold. Not even a nine-year-old caped-crusader freak will eat black food. The market for children's cereals is toothsome. Almost one-third...
...rather be compared to Patti Smith than anybody," she says. "I don't want to be compared to people like Suzanne Vega, because I don't like wishy-washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen about rap, reggae and Michael Jackson ("He's a doll, he's a god") and is open as a wound about the lacerating Irish upbringing from which many of her lyrics spring ("I'm walking through the desert/ And I am not frightened although it's hot/ I have all that I requested/ And I do not want what...
...union is like a Matryoshka doll. You get a Matryoshka doll inside a Matryoshka doll, and you get identical dolls, just smaller and smaller. We have 15 union republics, but within those republics we have 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and ten autonomous areas. What we really need is 53 independent republics, each with a direct line of submission to the center. In the U.S. there are 50 states. We need the same...
Seniors are constantly finding fresh uses for computers. Retirees concerned about catastrophic health insurance are organizing congressional lobbying campaigns on the machines. Amateur genealogists are using the network to locate missing relatives. Widows who wake up in the middle of the night are logging on for companionship. A doll enthusiast has employed her computer to write a book about her collection. A numismatist has electronically cataloged , his 65,000 rare coins. A beekeeper in Hawaii is putting out a newsletter using the latest technology for desktop publishing. "It has been a ball," says Clark, who recently started a new SeniorNet...
...Mike Costanza took over for Ted Stachtiaris, who had injured his knee at the Coast Guard Tournament. Costanza racked up wins against WPI and UNH. But the Crimson voodoo doll got another pin stuck in its leg, and Costanza had to forfeit his match against NYU because of an injured ankle...