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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Most Wanted Teenage Bandit | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

That's the present I'll never forget. I think it had to do with sharing a room with my brother in a small apartment and marveling at the extravagant impracticality of a stuffed animal that took up so much space, the most precious commodity we had. That elephant and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Zhu Zhu Hamsters, Classic Toys Have Power | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

Parents waited in line seven hours to get into Toys "R" Us in Times Square when it opened at midnight on Black Friday, in search of Zhu Zhu hamsters, priced at a recession-friendly $8 but commanding 10 times as much on eBay. Robot rodents are an improvement, I suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Zhu Zhu Hamsters, Classic Toys Have Power | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

The worst toys are the opposite: overdesigned, overengineered, the product of so much imagination on the part of the toymaker that they require none from the child. The ancient Egyptians played with dolls, but today's dolls are practically self-sufficient: they talk, walk, dine, dance, do long division. Why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Zhu Zhu Hamsters, Classic Toys Have Power | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

I needed to solve the problem of any writer telling a story--how do you end it? You can do a gentle fadeaway: "He went to the window and looked out into the darkness. Snow was falling gently through the spruce trees." But that's not good for half the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Garrison Keillor | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

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