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...NEXosaurus $25; K'NEX; ages 8 and up Is your kid too smart for lego? K'NEX requires greater mental and digital dexterity, and the results are more inspired. The K'NEXosaurus set makes three different critters, all of which move like living things (Can you say vertebrate?). Best of all, the K'NEX pieces can be combined any old way, so your child can take evolution into his or her own hands...
...three hours of educational programming on each station each week. (FCC chairman Reed Hundt's attempt to mandate such a rule ended in a deadlock between Republican and Democratic commissioners.) Clinton hoped to announce an agreement Monday at a White House conference where such advertisers as Pizza Hut, Lego and Reebok would voice support for the new educational shows. But if broadcasters balked, Clinton had a hammer: he threatened to appoint a loyalist to the FCC in August, then jam the plan down the stations' throats...
...principles didn't change. It was to be a thoroughly modern programming language, embodying all the major advances in computer theory of the past quarter-century. It had to be "object-oriented," forcing programmers to write in small, self-contained units that could be slotted into one another like Lego blocks. It had to be robust, which is to say crash-proof, doing without many standard programming tools that give developers flexibility but can lead to unpredictable results. Finally, it had to be secure, even in the hostile hacker- and virus-filled environment of the Internet. Before Java allows...
Some describe sackler Museum, down the street from the Carpenter Center, as a glorified Lego set. Its stripes were originally supposed to be pink and green to match the rooftiles of nearby Memorial Hall. But since pink and green bricks weren't structurally sound enough, the University had to settle for its second choices, orange and gray...
...January-March Emergency Preparedness Digest. This headline overlaps a picture of a kneeling figure in a yellow-orange spacesuit, the kind sported by Dustin Hoffman in the recent film Outbreak. The suit on the cover has more of a bubble shaped helmet, though, like the little plastic helmets of Lego spacemen...