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WASHINGTON, D.C.: For parents whose kids can't seem to do without their ravenous Cabbage Patch dolls, the Consumer Product Safety Commission offers this advice: pull off the toy's backpack. Removing the pack will deactivate the lever that operates the doll's teeth. Although it has not issued a recall, the commission says it will continue to investigate some three dozen complaints that the dolls have chewed on little girls? hair and fingers, mistaking children for the fake carrots and french fries they were designed to chomp. No serious injuries have been reported -- yet. Most surprising are mothers like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What To Do About Those Pit Dolls | 1/1/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: For parents whose kids can't seem to do without their ravenous Cabbage Patch dolls, the Consumer Product Safety Commission offers this advice: pull off the toy's backpack. Removing the pack will deactivate the lever that operates the doll's teeth. Although it has not issued a recall, the commission says it will continue to investigate some three dozen complaints that the dolls have chewed on little girls? hair and fingers, mistaking children for the fake carrots and french fries they were designed to chomp. No serious injuries have been reported -- yet. Most surprising are mothers like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What To Do About Those Pit Dolls | 12/31/1996 | See Source »

...high school] and had a baby out of wedlock, I'm voting for Clinton.") It took her longer to decide in favor of Dole, and went with him largely because she thought him trustworthy. On exiting the voting booth, however, she suddenly wished she had pulled the lever for Ross Perot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...honest. twenty-four percent of eligible voters actually pulled the lever in favor of Bill Clinton. America hasn't seen such limp support since Madonna's Wonderbra was stolen. PAT HESTER Olathe, Kansas Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1996 | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...problem facing any scientist trying to find a genetic lever on the aging process is the sheer number of genes involved. Geneticist George Martin at the University of Washington in Seattle, who was involved in the discovery of the Werner's gene, believes that even if only a few master-clock genes directly guide aging in humans, up to 7,000 more might be peripherally involved. Re-engineering even one of these is an exquisitely complex process. Re-engineering all 7,000 would be impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN WE STAY YOUNG? | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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