Word: toy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...games of Assassin, students are assigned other students to stalk and "kill" using toy dart guns or other harmless "weapons." The game is still played at several Houses, as well as by students at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
Perhaps we'd better prepare for the coming of the god-game generation: children who have tasted such power and know little of defeat. Sid Meier spent his childhood reconstructing the fall of Rome with legions of toy soldiers. Now his eight-year-old son conducts the same campaigns in Civilization, to much greater effect. "Nothing is impossible to him," says Meier. "I suppose once you've led the Roman Empire, you don't really have a sense of limitations...
...CHARITY WORK] --Leads team holiday-toy drive; works with Make-a-Wish Foundation and Children's Hospital of Orange County; active in Disney Gold to raise money for after-school programs...
Sources: Washington Post, Business Wire, Toy Manufacturers of America Inc., American Airlines
...million Total number of toy guns, weapons and accessory units shipped each year...