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DIED. JOSEPH STEINER, 95, co-founder of Kenner toys, producer of such hits as Play-Doh, the Easy-Bake Oven and the Close 'N Play Phonograph; near Cincinnati, Ohio. Steiner stumbled upon the idea for his 1947 Bubble Rocket while researching soap bubbles...
Despite all that has been learned, mistakes are still made. Last week four U.S. soldiers died when a rocket they were destroying exploded prematurely in the desert near Kandahar. Later a U.S. Air National Guard pilot killed four Canadians and seriously wounded eight others after mistaking muzzle flashes from a Canadian live-fire nighttime exercise for an enemy attack. The pilot dropped at least one 500-lb. laser-guided bomb on the allies...
Flaccid tomato sauce and pricey beer aside, Cambridge, 1 is a very welcome addition to the Harvard Square scene. When you think about it, it’s upsetting that other places cannot follow their simple recipe for success. No real culinary rocket science is going on in the kitchen, after all, and the décor is an exceedingly understated blend of a sauna and a factory. The beauty is that Cambridge, 1 does not aim too high, but also does not fall into the same bland banality of most restaurants in its price range...
...teacher, Mr. Mustachio, the perpetually darling, slightly androgynous little robot boy uses his powers of flight, super strength and rear-mounted machine guns to fight evil robots. The longest of the three self-contained stories, "The Hot Dog Corps," involves a queen whose robot spaceship pilots shoot down any rocket headed for the moon. Filled with the mischievous mayhem that boys love, but told with wit and imagination, the stories always have an underlying theme of friendship and goodwill. Drawn with a whimsical simplicity based heavily on the Disney cartoons, Tezuka has a loopy sense of humor. He will sometimes...
...says Wu Ping, a Beijing businessman who shops at a Carrefour on the city's outskirts. "What's important is that you provide what local customers really need at a price that most people can afford." If the invaders can continue to do that, it will take more than rocket attacks to stop them...