Word: toying
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...break into their daily routine. The Beslan school massacre was a stark reminder of that. Both campaigns realize the atrocity shook women to the core. At the White House on Sept. 24, Bush met with children from the local John Quincy Adams Elementary School who had helped organize a toy and school-supply drive for the children of Beslan. Even Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill has cited Beslan as a reason for Bush's resurgence. In a speech in Philadelphia, Kerry declared that "no American mother should have to lie awake at night wondering whether her children will...
...Cambridge and the neighboring townships loan their children (from newborns to four-year-olds) to the Spelke/Carey baby labs. There, graduates run coding studies on appointed toddlers most of the week. In return, the parents have a choice between a $5 payment, a sippy cup, t-shirt or plush toy...
Favorite childhood toy: My foil, which I used to propel me up the national and international ranks in the sport of fencing...
What is trans-toying? It's an industry term for taking everyday utilitarian objects and turning them into toys. It's turning a shampoo container into a toy by putting a character on top or on a toothbrush. It's turning a Band-Aid into a tattoo, a food into a toy...
Traditional moviemaking, a toy of the Industrial Revolution, was a cumbersome machine from the start and remained so for a century. To a generation that got its visual schooling in front of the small, teeming screens of PCs and PlayStation 2s, the old filmic quest to make movies seem like real life, only cooler, is as anachronistic as a telegram in the e-mail age. Now a generation of directors is moving from analog to digital. They want to make films that hit the delete button on reality--films whose highest aspiration is to be cartoons...