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...etched onto stacks of commemorative coins - the Royal Mint is releasing a set costing between $80 for the smallest one and $480 for the largest - and inked onto reams of stamps (over 100 governments will be issuing Diana stamps before the end of August). And then there are the dolls. Lots of dolls. U.S. collectibles company the Franklin Mint has a catalog that reads like a Who's Who of scale-model celebrity, from Marilyn Monroe to Jackie Onassis. Lady Di - at $195 a doll - outsells them all. A private company, the Franklin Mint won't say how many...
Canadian biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards and psychologist Anne Storey have shown that the similarities don't stop there. New or expectant fathers holding either their baby or a doll wrapped in a blanket that recently held--and still smells of--a newborn experienced a rise in prolactin and cortisol (a well-known stress hormone associated with mothering) and a drop in testosterone. When the men listened to a tape of a crying newborn and were shown a videotape of a newborn struggling to nurse, the ones who reported the greatest urge to comfort the baby were the ones whose hormone...
...tore around the yard climbing trees and building G.I. Joe forts. He carried a Cabbage Patch doll named Sylvester, dressed in matching camo, under his arm. In school, teachers had trouble channeling his enthusiasm into classwork. "He could look at something and fix it. He didn't need a book," says Tomson. "In the military, it's hands on. He was in his element...
...late March, a macabre music video appeared on a television show for Palestinian children. "Duha," 4, as pale as a porcelain doll, is sitting on a bed, watching her mom dress before leaving home. "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me?" the girl sings. The next day, Duha gets the answer from the evening news. It turns out her mother was carrying explosives and had blown herself up, killing four Israelis. The final scene shows the girl wistfully rummaging through her dead mother's bedside table. She finds a hidden stick of dynamite and picks...
...take a handful of salt with those first few desperate tequila shots. Obviously, the school is going to try and put its best foot forward, but they won’t tell you that that foot is as fake as the foot on the life-size otaku fetish doll that D.A. keeps in his closet; five articulating digits and lifelike feel, but no real love inside. Harvard is going to literally turn the weekend into a theater of satisfied student-life when they shuffle you in between Sanders Theatre and Annenberg Hall. They know you’ll go home...