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...collection of wizard figurines; his inner child, he says, is "fascinated by wizards." Shopping has become something of an obsession, and his tastes run to the opulent: his bedroom has purple wallpaper and a sleigh bed draped with a purple sari. He now has a second home: a Swiss-style chalet on a private 25- acre lake in Montana...
...trivial victory, but Imelda watchers were already keeping score in what Manila's press has dubbed the "war of the widows." Aquino had conceded the first point by reversing her ban on Marcos' return after a Swiss judge ruled that the former First Lady must be found guilty in a Philippine court before the government could hope to recoup an estimated $350 million in "ill-gotten wealth" from frozen Marcos accounts in Swiss banks. Aquino also agreed to allow interment of the still unburied body of the late President Marcos in his home province. But Imelda insists on a hero...
...than $3.1 billion. But most Soviets consider that sum laughably low. In recent weeks, one newspaper started its own investigation into the missing riches; a coalition of emerging Soviet businesses launched another. Their probes place the money everywhere from hard-currency accounts in foreign banks to gold bullion in Swiss vaults...
Except for 1 billion rubles discovered at a Soviet bank in September, the multiple inquiries have so far yielded little in the way of recovered cash. Foreign governments have refused to freeze Soviet assets, and Swiss banks decline to help unless investigators can obtain account numbers and the permission of their holders -- both unlikely developments. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is struggling under the weight of a 76.5 billion-ruble budget deficit, a foreign debt of some $70 billion and a looming winter food crisis -- misery that could have been eased had the party of the people only lived...
...groups. Three-year-olds and younger can learn spatial concepts -- in and out, over and around -- by crawling in a padded plastic turtle shell or sinking into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia and yellow tunnels. Youngsters up to 12 balance on a rope walk or on a webbed "bean field," a bouncy surface with punching bags that hang above it within a child's grasp. A nearby concession offers turkey dogs, pizza...