Word: toy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents don't think twice about straightening their kids' crooked teeth but stop short of fixing a crooked nose, and yet, in just the past seven years, plastic surgery performed on teens has doubled. As for intellectual advantages, parents soak their babies in Mozart with dubious effect, put a toy computer in the crib, elbow their way into the best preschools to speed them on their path to Harvard. Infertile couples advertise for an egg donor in the Yale Daily News, while entrepreneurs sold the sperm of Nobel laureates...
STEVE JOBS iBook's a hit, G4 looks super, and Toy Story 2 has light-years of buzz. Too late to get stock...
Ismail Cimen is the most famous boy in the world just now. The five-year-old sits in his hospital bed in Istanbul, watching the procession of toy-bearing journalists from all over the world who have come to hear his tale. He is the last living soul to be plucked from the destruction of the Aug. 17 earthquake, a boy buried so long that his uncle had prepared a grave for him. Says his sister Aysa, 18: "He was born on June 12, but his real birthday is the day they pulled...
Last night my daughter woke up at 4 a.m. in high spirits and yelled at us until we took her downstairs to the kitchen. She dug into her toy basket and got out her favorite doll, which laughs when you whack it, a perverse invention indeed. My daughter walked the floor with this doll, as if trying to put it to sleep, and my wife and I sat like a couple of refugees and thought blank thoughts and longed for our bed. And then my wife went upstairs and discovered...
...something so horrible and despicable that it has to end," Gallegly said of films such as Vicious in Las Vegas and Mistress Di: Princess of Death. One site, perhaps anticipating a crackdown, has already moved on to a new fetish: a woman sitting on a Sony Walkman and a toy...