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Some Angelenos theorized that kids were filching the things in tribute to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who use manhole covers for shields. The least plausible idea was that someone was stealing the covers for money. After all, a manhole cover only commands at most $6 as scrap. Yet when the case was solved last week, that theory proved right. Most of the missing covers turned up at a scrap-metals yard, and cops collared two culprits, dubbed the Manhole Men, with a pickup truck loaded with more manhole covers. They were charged with grand theft and receiving stolen property...
...even of this spring's. March is normally a sluggish month at the box office, but this year three films -- Pretty Woman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Hunt for Red October -- each pulled in summer-worthy figures of well over $100 million. Disney's Pretty Woman, an airhead Cinderella comedy that speaks to every man's dream of buying a beautiful woman and every woman's fantasy of a Rodeo Drive shopping spree, is near $160 million and still going strong. It stands a good chance of becoming the first film since Blazing Saddles...
...been used to sell breakfast at least since Olympian Bob Richards promoted Wheaties. But the presweetened concoctions that currently have little palates tingling may leave grownups fumbling for another cup of decaf or a couple of Tums. Hard on the heels of the cartoon craze and hit movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal is doing kitchen box office. It consists of tiny, turtle-shaped marshmallow bits mixed with "Ninja Nets," pieces of khaki- colored wheat, which is used in adult cereal as well. The taste: concentrated marzipan...
...distinguished educator to take money from the purveyor of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game may seem like the American Cancer Society soliciting funds from a cigarette company. But Papert has always been a maverick. In his seminal book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, he advocates a self-motivated approach to education that gives as much importance to the lessons learned in computer play as those drilled home in textbooks. He has received funding in the past from the National Science Foundation, IBM and Lego Systems...
...TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. In just six weeks, $100 million worth of movie- goers have seen this live-action version of the TV cartoon. Were any of them adults? If so, they have seen a dark, plodding melodrama only rarely leavened by wit or derring-do. Heroes on the half shell; hit film on the hard sell...