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...F.A.O. Schwarz in New York City to I. Magnin in San Francisco are increasing their original orders. "There are so many trivia games out," says Magnin Buyer Julia Burke. "People are looking for a different kind of interaction." Promoter Eisenberg predicts sales of more than a million this year; spin-offs, paraphernalia and even a TV show are in the works. And Makow is keeping busy by developing a children's edition, because, he says, "they are concerned about right and wrong, and this gives great insight on what it's like to be an adult...
...towns. Upstart groups like the Zetas have emerged largely as a result of the Mexican government's recent crackdown on the big cartels that have long monopolized the country's $25 billion-a-year drug trade. Experts call the phenomenon "atomization": as the large Mafias decompose, more reckless "microcartels" spin off or move in. In their heyday in the 1980s and '90s, Mexico's biggest kingpins ran networks that employed thousands of people; now gangs like the Zetas, whose members number at most in the low hundreds, are waging vicious battles against one another--and against remnants of cartels like...
Safety, however, will be paramount in the minds of the crew. Collins will be commanding the shuttle's first ever nose-over-tail spin, so the tiled underbelly can be photographed by the International Space Station and checked for problems. After docking with the station, her team will conduct experimental repairs on tile samples during space walks, using a caulk gun to fill gouges with high-tech goo and sponge brushes to add heat-resistant coating. Collins sees the mission as an important step in getting the U.S. space program back on track--and headed toward manned trips...
Haggis knows how to spin a heart-rending story, and some of Crash’s story lines do pack an emotional wallop. However, the premise of an honest survey of race relations in a hotbed of global diaspora like Los Angeles is a high-reaching goal that Crash fails to achieve...
PetroChina is a spin-off of the China National Petroleum Company, which has invested over $1 billion in a joint venture with Sudan to increase that country’s oil exports. Harvard’s decision makes the University the first institutional investor to cut ties with PetroChina in response to the Darfur crisis, activists said...