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...this very serious-looking javelin the twenty-something Kristin had speared a toy lion cub. "It's to show how I could survive" she explained. But it's only a miniature plush animal, I pointed out. "But it proves I could kill if I was hungry." I asked her what gave her the killer instinct. "I teach 30 fifth-grade kids...
...Pachikov and several countrymen who gave David Yang, one of Russia's up-and-coming tech stars, the seed money to launch Cybiko (www.cybiko.com), a hot gadget that is a toy, mobile phone and teen personal digital assistant all in one. Cybiko's HQ is in Bloomingdale, Illinois, but its 280-strong design and programming team is based in Moscow...
...This year's skits included "Chocolat Tiger, Hidden Bon-Bon" with the octogenarian "Chocolat" producer David Brown hamming it as Brown Young Fat; a revised "Chocolat" with director Roland Joffe ("The Killing Fields" and MTV's "Undressed") as an outlandish Satan (wearing toy-store $3 devil horns made out of crimson satin) seducing Marisa Tomei and Christina Applegate. James Woods showed his appreciation for the genre by dragging it up as "Erin Chocovitch," displaying what he conceded to me were the spindliest legs in the business. His beautiful young date seemed shell-shocked. One surmised that she'd perhaps seen...
...beaten me to it. After a few postcollege years in Boston, he hightailed it back to the only city in America he deems worth living in and found an affordable but tiny basement apartment before the rents went sky-high. But as my husband and I toy with the possibility of joining him there, it's becoming clear that the San Francisco we once knew is in peril of disappearing...
...fact that all those stuffed Olympic mascots and five-ring banners could be manufactured by kids in sweatshops. Last year China was embarrassed by reports that children were working 17-hour days packing plastic Snoopy figurines for McDonald's restaurants in Hong Kong. (After the report came out, the toy factory released its child laborers...