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Lego has come a long way from the little bricks I played with as a kid. The company now manufactures 15 billion bricks and other pieces a year. The first motorized Lego kit appeared in 1966, and the mechanical Technic systems debuted in the late 1970s. In 1998 Lego teamed with M.I.T. to launch the first edition of Mindstorms, which brought together motors, mechanical parts and a simple programming language for the purpose of--what else?--building robots...
...woman orders a salad in a Texas McDonald's and finds a rat in the salad. She calls the kid over and says, 'There's a rat in my salad!' And the kid says, 'Oh, that's your action figure.'" DAVID LETTERMAN...
...hockey rink at six years old. Since then, she’s taken home three ECAC titles and made three appearances at the NCAAs with the Crimson, impressing coaches and teammates alike with her athletic prowess and go-getter attitude.“If there is one kid that you want to sell your house for, it’s Jennifer Sifers,” Harvard coach Katey Stone says. “She is the epitome of a company girl—she’ll do anything you want her to do, and she will...
...self-assurance, something not lost on his former road-trip roommate.“Dylan’s got a lot of confidence,” noted Welch at the end of Reese’s sophomore season. “He’s not a cocky kid, but he’s a pretty confident kid, and he’s a leader. In those qualities, I thought I saw a lot of myself this year.”Others made similar observations.Even before Reese reached Cambridge, the New York Rangers recognized his intelligence and competitive nature...
...following me around is just a gross misappropriation of attention and money. But I do think there's a certain amount of nationalism and racism thrown in there. I mean, there's a lot of Brits - reporters on the street - who've said, "Why don't you adopt a kid from Britain?" Or, "Why did you adopt a black child?" So a lot of people's hangups and 'isms' are sort of mixed into this, too. It's just kind of a cocktail for disaster in terms of media perception...