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...retailers is only part of the reason for the revival of the Logs. All sorts of retro toys have been growing in popularity over the past year--and especially since Sept. 11, when they've seemed to act as a sort of comfort food for anxious families. The first spike in sales came among G.I. Joes and fire-fighter action figures. But a range of other oldies, many with fresh face-lifts, are proving to be this season's hits: 1950s-era live-ant farms, a revamped version of the '70s-era Shrinky Dinks and a 3-D Hot Wheels...
...Then, even as the deals - and with them the buyers - were retreating back into the shadows in November (the wane of the keep-America-rolling sales push was behind Thursday's retail-sales bummer that took October's 6.4 percent spike and turned it into a 3.4 percent drop) carmakers are doing just what we want everybody else to do. They're refilling their lots. Production of automobiles and parts jumped a whopping 6.4 percent in November, taking the edge off the rest of the manufacturing sector's stubborn statistical lethargy...
...news that scarcely brooked a headline was China's formal induction into the World Trade Organization. Having plunged its economy into a giddy capitalist roller-coaster ride that will forever change Chinese society, the Communist Party leaders are now bracing themselves for the political fallout from the inevitable spike in unemployment and poverty as state-supported industries are allowed to collapse in the face of foreign competition...
...Sunday? Letting Harry Reid do the snarling, waiting to see if stopping the Republicans is enough of a battle cry for a Democrat-led Senate to get by on and standing by to swoop in with a compromise if the national mood demands it. But if Daschle can spike the stimulus package and get away with it, then it has an even better chance of working nine months from now in 2002. And if it works in the 2002 mid-terms, well, "I led the do-no-harm Congress" is a good a campaign slogan...
...directed videos by Missy Elliott ("The Rain - Supa Dupa Fly") and Mary J. Blige ("Everything"). There was the elegantly creepy work of Floria Sigismondi who directed videos for shock-rocker Marilyn Manson (one featured him shaving his own armpit) and trip-hopper Tricky. And there was also prankster auteur Spike Jonze, the man behind Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" (a video that explodes into a technicolor musical), the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (a take-off on '70s TV cop shows), and Weezer's "Buddy Holly" (a good-natured "Happy Days" sendup). Jonze also showed that videos could indeed lead...