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Consumer officials in Connecticut urged retailers to recall a cheap knock- off of the toy last month after the imitation's sharp edges cut a four- year-old girl. The real Slap Wrap, which carries its name on the bracelet, was excluded from the warning. This snappy fad is making some kids downright slaphappy...
...newest fad is for even more atomization: not just republics but pieces of republics and even single cities are proclaiming themselves sovereign. Within the Russian federation, the Chuvash, Buryat, Kalmyk, Tatar, Mari, Komi, Yakut, Karelian and Bashkir autonomous republics, each the homeland of a distinct ethnic group, have all called for some form of separatism. Districts like the Irkutsk region of Siberia have adopted declarations of "equality and independence," and the city of Nizhni-Novgorod has petitioned the federation for special status...
...content. The term is used to identify artists who demonstrate the highest technical skills and most mature or "serious" treatment of their subject matter. Works of the highest quality, or masterpieces, serve as yardsticks by which to measure all other works: the good, the bad or the mere passing fad. But feminists like art professor Whitney Chadwick of San Francisco State University insist that there simply is no "objective factor called quality that someone sophisticated and knowledgeable can immediately deduce...
That president said that many club officials are considering "almost completely fad[ing] out of the social scene" at Harvard. He said that many of the clubs have discussed adopting a policy similar to one used by the Porcellian Club, which reportedly allows only members inside...
...fad for parks now is with big castles,"said Ann Neczypor. "But with this one, thechildren can use their imaginations a lot more...