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Turtle Dance Inventor: Takara Availability: Now, only in Japan; about $12 each To Learn More: takaratoys.co.jp (Japanese only) It's small, it's cute and it sashays across your desk, tail wriggling. To program Walkie Bits, simply tap its shell with your finger. It can remember and mimic a rhythmic pattern of up to 15 clicks. In song mode, it bleep-bleeps Leopold Mozart's Toy Symphony. But the most fun you can have with these tiny turtle robots is to race them against each other. In basic walk mode, the Walkie Bits' pace is unpredictable, so you never know...
...little shell-shocked,” she said happily...
...Islands did a lot less damage than one might expect from 26 million gal. of escaped crude oil. But after another major spill near the Strait of Malacca, off Sumatra, Britain's Transport Secretary concluded that the number of substandard tankers on the seas was an ''international disgrace.'' A Shell International Petroleum report claimed that 20% of the world's fleet was unfit for duty...
...discover the theater's original four-story Neo-Gothic apses on either side of the stage and, throughout the theater, a vast amount of decorative plasterwork, 40% of which ! needed replacing. In addition, a modern TV infrastructure had to be implanted without seriously disturbing any of the splendid 1927 shell. For all that, the total cost was still probably less than Letterman earns in a year...
...other accomplishments in office.Sullivan also says that the city’s relations with Harvard have improved under his watch. In February, Harvard reached a new deal with the city under which it will increase the voluntary payments it makes to compensate for its tax-exempt status.Although Harvard will shell out about $2.4 million in 2006 under the new deal, Sullivan says he would work, if reelected to the council, toward convincing the state legislature to rescind Harvard’s tax exemption, calling it a matter of “fairness and equity.”Nonetheless, Sullivan says...