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...protect and pamper their children, says Erin Clack, market editor of the trade publication Children's Business. Clack says many parents tell her they want to indulge their children by buying them unique and beautiful things. This trend has been a boon to independent specialty stores like the Kangaroo Pouch in Atlanta. Owner Eloise Morris says customers seem particularly drawn to personalized items, like monogrammed hair bows and bibs...
Mention of Perri the Hobo has reminded him of something, and he grabs a black leather pouch off the back of his bicycle...
...cell-phone virgin. For two exciting months this past summer, I had a cell phone to call my own (get it? call?) while I was researching for Let’s Go USA. It was fulfilling, in a way, to have a phone nestled snugly in the cell-phone pouch on my purse, a pouch that had previously been reserved for Tic Tacs. Of course it took me a week or two to figure out how the voicemail system operated, but after that I never received any messages anyway. It was nice to be able to keep in touch with...
...about personal connection. The result is a surprisingly mundane account of an existence that seems anything but. Describing a bath, Iwasaki writes how she lowered herself into the tub. Then got out of the tub. Then washed with soap and water. Then rubbed her skin with a net pouch. Then got back into the tub. At times her book isn't a story?it's an itinerary. Occasionally Iwasaki's storytelling cuts loose. She describes an overzealous customer who dared to grope her. Iwasaki wasn't the delicate blossom that she seemed: she chased the customer around the ochaya...
...crave is a hot meal, you can abandon the stove altogether. Hot Pack Self-Heating Meals are used by emergency personnel and hard-core campers. After the sealed meal is placed in a pouch, water (of any temperature) is added, and in 12 minutes, through the magic of magnesium and oxygen, the food is piping hot. The meals, in such flavors as Chicken and Vegetable Casserole and Rotini Bolognese, come with a napkin. --By Desa Philadelphia