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What do you get when you combine the nation's largest fast-food chain with the hottest toy critters around? Lunchtime chaos, if kids and parents rush the Golden Arches the way they have stormed toy stores in search of Beanie Babies, the gotta-have-it-or-I'm going-to-hold-my-breath-until-I-turn-blue toy of the moment. Order a Happy Meal, and you'll get either Patti the Platypus or Pinky the Flamingo, the first two of a series of miniature Beanie Babies McD's is giving away. Get there soon. The cuddly Beanie Babies...
...service, brainchild of ex-Wall Streeter Jeff Bezos, 33, is widely considered the hottest retail site in cyberspace. Few book lovers would forgo entirely the joys of browsing an actual bookstore, but Amazon offers considerable pleasures of its own. The site is so fast and responsive it almost feels alive; it's thrilling to have every title in the language at your fingertips, and reader-produced reviews add a layer of egalitarian interactivity. In the past year everyone from Business Week to the New Yorker has sung Amazon's praises. Bill Gates buys books there, and he doesn't even...
Word has it that while Chelsea spent last Saturday afternoon in low-key fashion, her evening was really something to talk about. The high school senior from Sidwell Friends was taken on a whirlwind tour of all the Square's hottest locales. The highlight? A raging party at the A.D. final club. Adorned in a "royal blue tight sweater, bootleg pants and, of course, boots," as The Crimson described her attire, Chelsea chatted away with some of this country's best and brightest elitist, womanizing snobs. Dad must have been so proud...
...saving taxpayers gobs of money. Congress may also want to take a lesson from U.S. allies who are stretching their defense dollars. In Europe four nations recently began cracking open 300 F-16 jet fighters like eggs and stuffing them with new electronic components that turn them into the hottest fighters in the sky. At the same time, the U.S. Air Force has sent nearly 400 of those very same $20 million planes to its Arizona junkyard, never to fly again...
Silverman, who founded HFS as Hospitality Franchise Systems in 1990 and took it public in 1992, has his company in the thick of some of the hottest plays on Wall Street. If Hilton Hotels Corp. succeeds in its hostile $6.5 billion takeover bid for ITT Corp. and its chain of 424 Sheraton properties, as many analysts think likely, HFS will add the luxe Sheraton brand to its already bulging portfolio. That's because Hilton ceo Stephen Bollenbach wants to license HFS to franchise the Sheraton trademark worldwide. Says Bollenbach of Silverman: "He can do more for the Sheraton brand than...