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...airplane who, while speaking to us, is faxing an application for a Platinum card and e-mailing a color photo of his beaming children, taken with a digital camera and put on a CD, to a screen in his home in Connecticut, where the kids are playing Pokemon (don't ask) or dancing to Livin' la Vida Loca (don't ask), before he trades a hundred shares of Microsoft, transfers some cash, buys a Palm Pilot for his wife (who's doing Pilates at the health club this afternoon), auctions off the cabin in Vermont, then orders...
...institutions that want them. A slight curtailing of the new-issue pipeline, mandated by regulators as a pre-Y2K bug precaution, caused the few Business-to-Business plays out there, like VerticalNet, to soar. Stocks trade as a function of supply and demand, and right now every dotcom is Pokemon at Christmas--only in the case of stocks, the shortage won't be fixed anytime soon...
...POKEMON Annoying Japanese critters stole kids' hearts--just as we were warming to Beanie Babies...
...posterior inferior temporal regions. While researchers said the immediate importance of the study lies in the area of teaching language and reading, it's sure to play a role in future anthropological research seeking to explain the differences between cultures. Unfortunately, there are no studies yet of what impact Pokemon-speak has on neurotransmission in young brains...
Rather than brave the holiday-shopping frenzy in search of wool socks and Pokemon paraphernalia, Linda Micke of Daly City, Calif., simply adopts animals from the San Francisco Zoo in her relatives' names. More than 130 zoos nationwide have adopt-an-animal programs, with average yearly adoption fees of $48. The money goes toward the care of the zoo's animals, and "zoo parents" usually receive an adoption packet that includes a photograph of--and facts about--the adopted animal. The gift is tax deductible too. "I'm no dummy," Micke says with a laugh. "I don't throw away...