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...take toys seriously--only two, arts and crafts, and dolls, have generated sales growth over a recent 12-month period, according to investment firm Harris Nesbitt. Some of the weakest categories like construction sets (down 10%) and action figures (down 9%) are the ones aimed at boys, who suffer the most blisters from video games. Analysts expect one of the top stocking stuffers this season to be not a traditional toy but the new generation of Nintendo's Game Boy, the DS, which hit stores last week. Next year will bring more competition in handheld gaming, when Sony launches...
Robinson's turnaround was impressive, but according to the experts, such stories are increasingly rare. At least 65 million Americans--a third of all adults over 18--are thought to suffer from hypertension (the technical term for persistent...
...more important. "African Americans generally have lower economic well-being and the ability to make lifestyle changes and purchase medicines," says the CDC's Labarthe. Indeed, a 10-country, 85,000-person study revealed that, worldwide, it is whites who are as much as twice as likely to suffer from hypertension, with countries like Poland and Finland--where diets are high in fat and low in fruits and vegetables--leading the way. In a socioeconomic environment in which African Americans are often forced to eat cheap, unhealthy food (the National Institutes of Health is worried particularly about cured meats, pickled...
...election of Bush, who so arrogantly dismissed the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is a nation of selfish materialists who refuse to be good stewards of the earth, and we deserve every abuse Mother Nature heaps upon us. It's just too bad the rest of the world has to suffer with us. Cheryl Clark Calera, Oklahoma, U.S. Ghostly Goings-on Having resolved not to comment on Jennie Erdal's Ghosting I nevertheless wish to draw your attention to two aspects of your review [Nov. 29]. The overheated love letter to my wife, as quoted in the book and repeated...
...from the North Korean government is immediately punishable by death," Jenkins said during his court-martial. "I think we all secretly wished we would be caught." Another time, they stumbled upon an array of microphones in the attic of their house and blackmailed their leader (who feared he would suffer if his superiors learned that the bugging had been exposed) into taking one of them into town to buy wine. On yet another occasion, Parrish sneaked out of the house one night to go looking for a girl he had a crush on. But Jenkins, as a practical joke...