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...piggy bank of the '90s is a tyke-size home ATM machine that handles withdrawals and balance quotations and even tells little Ashley or Justin how much to deposit in savings each week. Next: My Little Broker, the pint-size Charles Schwab doll...
NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION. There have been no signs so far of radioactive contamination resulting from allied air attacks on Iraq's two nuclear reactors at Tuwaitha. Both are small research facilities, with modest amounts of nuclear material at their cores. The smaller of the two is a pint-size reactor of less than a megawatt. The larger puts out just five megawatts of power. Chernobyl was roughly a thousand times as powerful...
These determined do-gooders are just a few of the ecokids, the new generation of conservation-conscious, environmentally active schoolchildren. The Earth Day ardor of their parents may be cooling, but these pint-size crusaders have lost none of theirs. Bombarded with ecomessages in school, in the press, on TV and in pop-music lyrics, the youngsters have become convinced that they were put on the planet for the express purpose of saving...
...Japan, Germany, the Soviet Union -- might not have found the stakes so high or the crisis quite so threatening. It has not penetrated our imagination that in a world where the powerful, industrialized nation-states are at last at peace, there might be other ways to face down a pint-size Third World warrior state than with massive force of arms. Nor have we begun to see what an anachronism we are in danger of becoming: a warrior nation in a world that pines for peace, a high- tech state with the values of a warrior band...
Winchell would have cooked up his own word -- cinetome? flickfic? -- something that catches the brash fluency and gritty romanticism of his own life. He would never have dared, though, to convert himself, as Herr so elegantly does, into a pint-size paradigm of scrambled patriotism and American success gone crazy. Herr's Winchell is an ex-vaudevillian who dances as he writes and lives: with little grace but an overabundance of berserk energy. He starts by posting sheets of trade tattle and pillow talk backstage at the crummy vaudeville theaters he plays. Within a decade he moves center stage, prowling...