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...girl. Well, she is a little creepy. With two 16-bit microprocessors, voice-recognition software and a digital camera lodged in her chest, she takes interactive playtime to a new level. The doll can do simple math, recognize basic shapes and colors, respond to 70 preprogrammed questions and read flash cards (as long as they're within her vocabulary of 650 English words and a smattering of German, Spanish, Italian and French ones). If all this gets to be too much, you can always switch Cindy off and braid her white-blond hair. INVENTOR Toy Quest AVAILABILITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just For Fun | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...seeds are cold-pressed to produce this aromatic sweet oil, which can be used for sauteing or tossed into pastas or salads. Tea oil has a high flash point, which allows for cooking to 485° without burning or smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demystifier: Cooking Oil: Masterpieces Start with Oil | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Things and aged courtships alike. (How the latter is possible is beyond me, though, as the ambient volume is quite vexing to proper conversation.) But is this now really such an aberrant phenomenon? Voguish restaurants need to be this protean: People want old-fashioned quality and intimacy but also flash and flutter, a measured balance of familiarity and novelty, romantic hideaways secreted amidst convivial bustle. Sonsie is exactly that sprawling, radiant paradox. Who really gives a damn about the food anymore...

Author: By Darryl J. Wee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Sashay Through Sonsie | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...Delay has long been a hallmark of the Ghan legend, which was named for the "Afghan" cameleers whose strings of camels carted goods to and from the train depots. The railroad on which it runs is often subjected to the intense weather of the Australian outback. Flash floods and sand drifts would sometimes block the line for days. Once, a train was stranded in the middle of the outback for two weeks; the driver shot wild goats to feed the passengers. Even construction of the rest of the line?originally intended to link the South Australian capital of Adelaide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 11/10/2002 | See Source »

...break the Asian barrier in the NBA with flair. I want the Twins to stay alive, Roy Oswalt to win the Cy Young and the abolition of the designated hitter. I want a return to finesse over show in basketball, to fundamentals over power in baseball, to consistency over flash in football...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love It Or Leeve It | 11/5/2002 | See Source »

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