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...mania, the one surrounding teddy bears early this century. Their ascendance stemmed partly from adult interest, says Gary Cross, a historian and author of Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood. Yes, the bears were cuddly, but parents liked the story that inspired them: Theodore Roosevelt's saving a baby bear on a 1902 hunting trip. Nevertheless, it was kids who ultimately made teddy bears more than a fad. It took at least four years for teddy bears to sell well, only after kids across the country started seeing them...
...someone love animals--cats, dogs, beasts of the field--and then shoot to death an animal as elegant as a deer or a dove? To answer the question, begin with the paradox of Teddy Roosevelt: America's greatest conservationist, creator of the national park system--and archtype Bambi killer. Roosevelt blazed away at all the animals of creation...
...students were staying with Weld's daughter, Mary B. Weld, a Yale sophomore. Among the stolen items was a laptop computer which Weld's wife, Susan Roosevelt Weld '70, estimated to be worth...
Most of the other studies that were reported last week yielded mixed results. Researchers at St. Luke's Roosevelt in New York City determined that Garcinia cambogia does not, by itself, help patients lose weight. A review of all the studies conducted on saw palmetto found significant improvement in urine flow in men with enlarged prostates. But the reviewers cautioned that the saw palmetto studies lasted, on average, only nine weeks, too few to determine long-term results...
Engaging as it is, Evans' brisk newsreel is disappointingly too selective. His only reference to the Wright brothers, for example, is made not in the context of the birth of the age of flight but in a photo caption showing Teddy Roosevelt sitting in a pusher plane in 1910. Elvis Presley, who wrought a different kind of revolution, is not mentioned...