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...TIME. Amazon.com is the best shopping website, bar none. After ordering from a toy company online on Dec. 2, thinking that was plenty of time to ship my items, I found out on Dec. 21 that not only were my items not going to arrive for Christmas, but that my order had been canceled. I immediately went to Amazon.com and guess what? I got the same items on Dec. 22, gift wrapped and ready to put under the tree. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and his name is Jeff Bezos. ELAINE FLORES Stamford, Conn...
...modernization of Shakespeare is a tricky undertaking, and it has been accomplished to greater and (usually) lesser effect in the past, so this movie's opening scene, which involves a small boy sitting at a kitchen table and staging a battle with toy soldiers and ketchup, was cause for some concern. Just as quickly as this context has been established, though, the boy flies through time and space, a la Alice in Wonderland, to the opening historical scene of the play, set in a coliseum. As the film goes on, the boy becomes as the eyes of the audience, observing...
...half years, he is no longer the "interim CEO" at Apple. His title is now officially "iCEO" of Apple - that "i," says Jobs, is to "remind myself what is important - the Internet." He will also keep his old responsibilities at Pixar, the computer animation studio that produced the "Toy Story" movies. MORE...
Slow in learning to talk as a child, expelled by one headmaster and proclaimed by another unlikely to amount to anything, Einstein has become the patron saint of distracted schoolkids. But even at age five, he later recalled, he was puzzling over a toy compass and the mysteries of nature's forces...
...easygoing engineer father, an unsuccessful entrepreneur in the emerging electrochemical industry, had less influence, though it was he who gave Einstein the celebrated toy compass that inspired his first "thought experiment": what, the five-year-old wondered, made the needle always point north...