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...Westerners, acquiring top-quality African art and artifacts has never been easier. The largest transit point for wholesale African art in the U.S. is New York City's Chelsea Mini-Storage facility, an enormous warehouse whose ground floor resembles an African bazaar. Hundreds of traders, most from West Africa, have set up stalls, a makeshift mosque and a kitchen where women prepare traditional meals. Upstairs, Senegalese dealer Moussa Cissokho displays his wares. The presentation is modest--the figurines are still caked with soil, and the small space is crammed with crates--but the price is right. For a figure about...
...eBay, where nostalgic adults buy boxed He-Man figures for $60 or a complete Optimus Prime, the truck leader of the Transformers' Autobot heroes, for upwards of $150--eight times its original value. Sooner or later the toymakers had to notice and start making the items again. Trendmaster's mini-replica of the robot Voltron ($29.99) has completely sold out since its release in 1999, and each of the first 12 Masters of the Universe--including He-Man, Man-at-Arms and the evil Skeletor ($10-$25 each)--has all but disappeared from the shelves of J.C. Penney and Toys...
...portrayed a "happy baby" headed toward a fabulous career--a diaper-clad banker, for example. "But in the late '90s there was a shift," says Gilding. "A happy baby was one that was learning about himself rather than a proposition for the future. Mothers were less interested in a 'mini-me.'" Gilding's film showed mothers enthralled as Baby discovered her toes or a new stuffed animal. The research persuaded Huggies to launch a new campaign, straight out of reality...
...have to wait for definitive answers. In the meantime, TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon offers her take on the latest FBI mini-scandal...
...NICHE MARKET FOR MINI TANKS...