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Jewels played a crucial role in Chemirik's childhood. There was his family's gold belt, scattered with diamonds and emeralds, traditionally worn at weddings. And his mother was "crazy about rings," naming each one after the city it came from ("It was, 'Give me Paris. Hand over Istanbul...
...Horvath, 35, knew since childhood that they wanted to make toys. Growing up in Seoul, Kim's friends played with Barbie houses while she fashioned dollhouses out of cardboard and clay. On the other side of the world, in the U.S., Horvath's mother designed toys for Mattel. "She would bring home her beautiful unique prototypes, but when I saw them in the toy store, they looked the same as everything else," he recalls. "I always wanted to make toys, but I knew I never wanted to work for a toy company...
...Horvath's mother started to worry and persuaded him to show his drawings of what were to become Uglydolls to a major toy company (he's mum about which one). "They flat out told me none of my characters could translate into anything," he says. Frustrated, that night he wrote Kim a letter with a little drawing of Wage at the bottom. "Basically I was like, I'm going to work hard and find a way for us to get back together." When Kim received the letter, she decided to do something with it. "I knew it would make David...
...University of Limerick booth, Nidhi Kapur, a middle-class mother from Delhi, sat looking over courses for her 17-year-old son Kartavya. The gap between India's top schools and the next rank of universities is huge, she explained. For a B- or C-grade student like her son, "you still want a good, solid, branded university, but the options are limited in India," despite the fact that "every family would spend anything it can for education. We're happy to give up comfortable living if it means our children will go to a good school...
...Zachary B. S. Sniderman ’09): a playroom which perfectly reproduces any place one could wish to go. It comes to represent the children’s resentment toward their parents, eventually allowing their emotions to take murderous form, despite the worries of their mother (Victoria J. Crutchfield ’10) and the intervention of a psychiatrist (Mark D. Hoadley ’07), who examines the room more than the children...