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...history, the deal that joined AOL and Time Warner (proud owner of this magazine) in corporate matrimony. The Federal Communications Commission wouldn't approve the union without special conditions regarding AOL's IM policy. Why the fuss? After all, some nonsophisticates argue, IM is just a kid's toy--e-mail for the Dawson's Creek crowd...
BRAINY BIRD Chirpy-Chi ($25) is Tiger Electronics' latest attempt to build the perfect robotic animal toy, and it's safe to say it's getting closer. When called to action, the toy sings (up to 40 songs) and begs for its ear-of-corn toy, which it "eats" with jabbing movements and excited warbles. Though a successor to Furby and Poo-Chi, this plastic, squawking, nonspecific bird doesn't exhibit the same annoyingly earnest cuteness. Even more important: Chirpy-Chi goes to sleep in a hurry and doesn't wake up at every little sound...
...gifts. If he had a TV in his room, says the National Institute on Media and the Family, he'd spend an additional 5.5 hours a week watching it. That's about 45 minutes a day that he could be looking at books, playing with his sisters or singing toy commercials...
...their waking moments among Britney, Christina and 'N Sync, Trendmasters' three C-Watches ($20) could be timely stocking stuffers. Push a button, and video snippets appear, with the fave pop star pulling slick dance moves to an overplayed (but catchy) tune. The sound and picture quality of the $20 toy is far from good, but it's still fun--the first 20 times. Parents who suffer psychic damage from prolonged exposure should blame Trendmasters...
...deception had the desired effect. I withheld judgement on the existence of Santa for another year, and my parents could revel in my naivete. But the next Christmas "Santa" gave my sister a toy that I remembered seeing before in our house. Either Santa was having an economically trying year and had helped himself to some of our older toys, or my parents had misled me all along. Learning the truth was a disappointment, but even more disturbing was the belittlement and the manipulation that previous "evidences" implied. The world had connived to pull one over on me, and that...