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...that the U.N. would call on ready battalions from armies around the world to step into emerging hot spots. These "surge" troops would be trained to work together and deploy quickly. Tactical units from Sweden, say, would be trained to work side by side with Pakistani logistics officers. Lego blocks for international order--but Legos with teeth. While the U.N. would hold to the rules that permit peacekeepers to fire only in self-defense, the definition of self-defense would be stretched. If troops on the ground saw a left hook coming in, they would be free to do much...
...PRESCHOOL YOUNGER KIDS CAN BUILD TOYS THAT MAKE NOISE Two years ago, the Lego company's Mindstorms robotics kit was such a hit with preteens (and many dads) that the company last week launched a similar product for kids ages 4 to 6. With the MyBot (price: $50), kids use "smart bricks" to build and personalize airplanes, race cars or robots. These creations respond to movement by flashing lights and making the sounds of, say, tires squealing or a jet taking off. Educators say such toys make kids comfortable with technology from an early age and allow them to learn...
...there may have been a good reason to do so. It appears, however, that that reason parted from the production sometime between the formation of the concept and opening night. Thus was the audience left to face a set comprised of three movable stumps and a Lego-like bridge structure, dramatic staging which seems to overlook fundamental plot and character issues and a group of actors who struggle to preserve the meaning of the text in an Illyria gone horribly wrong...