Word: lightweights
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When you are traveling with kids, the long security lines and endless terminal corridors can be a real drag. But new bags designed for kids offer both amusement and emergency seating. Züca rolling backpacks ($120) are surrounded by a lightweight aluminum crash cage; the platform on top doubles as a chair that supports up to 300 lbs. Coolest feature: kid-friendly flashing LED wheels. Trunki ($40) is a ride-on suitcase for globetrotting tots. The brightly colored polypropylene bags can be towed with a strap or used as a ride-along toy. When the kids tire of playing, attach...
...Mood. Lau, whose retinue of teen fans follows him everywhere (he's also the most successful Cantopop singer of his generation), has been a lucrative movie commodity for two decades; in the early '90s, Triad bosses reportedly fought to sign him for the films they financed. Long considered a lightweight presence, Lau belatedly graduated from teen fave to compelling actor...
...government major from Eliot House. As a coxswain for the men’s varsity lightweight crew team, and a native Philadelphian, he has developed a highly tuned sense of observation, and hopes to bring this to bear on the international issues of the day in “On the Lookout.” His column will appear on alternate Thursdays...
...might assume that 30 Rock, the sitcom, is the more lightweight show. But Fey began comedy writing with Chicago's Second City troupe, where, she says, "your starting place was always current events and social issues." Her hit movie Mean Girls was a mainstream feminist entertainment that was steeped in ideas but not overwhelmed by them. And 30 Rock is at heart about the race-class-gender triangle among its three leads: Liz, a talented but headstrong woman; Jack, a conservative suit who's not as dumb as Liz wishes he were; and Tracy, a loony--but cannily so--black...
...Labour MP why Blair's in trouble, the first answer isn't Baghdad but Brown - Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The two men have been allies and rivals for two decades. Brown's overwhelming ambition for the top job and contempt for Blair as an intellectual lightweight have been held in check only by his conviction, born of Labour's agonies in the 1980s, that inheriting a disunited party would mean electoral self-immolation. To get Brown's full-throated support during the 2005 election, Blair was forced to promise to quit before the next one - something...