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...allowance (or a raise) to discuss what your kids are expected to do: Are they responsible for buying their own candy at the movies, their own CDs at the mall? Are they expected to save some and give some away? (For youngsters, I've recently come across a terrific plastic piggy bank called the Money Savvy Pig. It's clear (so the kids can see money adding up) and has four slots, one each for saving, spending, investing and donating. You can get it on the Web at www.moneysavvygeneration.com...
...Laptop computers are practical tools--especially for business travelers--but pecking at their shrunken keyboards can be a pain. Enter the Manhattan True-Touch Roll-Up keyboard ($35). This laptop accessory is the same size as a full-fledged desktop keyboard but is encased in New Age flexible plastic that can be rolled up like a newspaper. Now if they could only perfect those roll-up screens...
...clearly says Legos are meant for kids from 18 months to 5 years old, but adults are enthusiastically ignoring that advisory and finding their own uses for the plastic building bricks. The music video for the White Stripes' Fell in Love with a Girl uses animation to re-create the band out of Legos. Lego art is also hot, with collectors commissioning mosaics and sculptures from artists like Eric Harshbarger for upwards of $800, including the Mona Lisa done in the form. And then there are the websites devoted to Lego creations. At thebricktestament.com Lego fan Brendan Powell Smith...
...words American cheese almost automatically conjure a vision of slices of something preternaturally orange and individually wrapped in plastic. Traditionally, the U.S. has had little to offer turophiles besides Cheddar and Cheez Whiz. But as American tastes are becoming more worldly, U.S. cheesemakers are increasingly producing Bries, mozzarellas and blues that can hold their own on fromage platters all over the planet. Competing against entries from 19 other nations at the recent 2002 World Championship Cheese Contest, American-made cow's-milk cheeses won 49 awards, nearly one-third more prizes than in 2000. Ten years ago, there were only...
...were released and allowed to return home. When the men were being rounded up, according to villagers, American soldiers bound and shoved the village women. That was an affront. Naibo, a middle-aged mother with cropped black hair, hands and feet scored from years of labor, says troops used plastic handcuffs to tie her hands and a torn turban to gag her. "I felt certain they were going to kill me," she says. "I was whispering the prayer before dying from the Koran." Other women made similar claims. A villager produces his daughter Maba...