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...Classical symphonies in class and Irish reels in pubs are much more related than I thought,” he says. Gurney is a professional accordion player, with several national awards and a busking license to his name, but he first met the instrument in a toy store. “I was seven,” he says. “I tried on a toy accordion and just kept playing it until it broke. I’ve since moved on to bigger and bigger accordions.” His childhood also exposed him to Irish music...
...this case, the worst) part, your Kindle’s battery dies! You are miles away from any electricity, and the only thing going through your head is, “I wish I had a book with me.”As a functional tool or toy, I don’t mind the Kindle, but we must never conflate it with the experience of real paper. I hope we refuse to let books become expensive antiques. I hope libraries are always sacred places of knowledge and learning, rather than massively inefficient time capsules. As a side note...
...weren't customers shopping for snacks at Toys "R" Us? First of all, some mothers simply refuse to torture their children. Think about it: you're a kid. You take a trip to heaven, a.k.a. Toys "R" Us, once every two months or so. And with all those bikes, trains and video games surrounding you, Mom brings you to the Clorox aisle? Talk about temper-tantrum central. "As you can see, he doesn't want to be here," says Jennifer Meade, whose 7-year-old son Logan is fiddling with a Nerf Blaster in a shopping cart, looking like...
...surprising that Wal-Mart offer lower prices than Toys "R" Us on consumables, one of the retail giant's core competencies. What should be more disconcerting for Toys "R" Us is that Wal-Mart often beats the toy company at its own game. For example, a collectable Lighting McQueen, the main character in the hit Pixar movie Cars, costs $2.97 at Wal-Mart. At Toys "R" Us, he and other key characters go for $3.59. Monopoly is $10.44 at Wal-Mart and $12.99 at Toys "R" Us. Here's a real shocker: at Wal-Mart, a "Surf's Up" Barbie...
...survey. Yet the city's malls and restaurants are no less crowded than before. Property launches are thronged, especially for cheaper suburban homes. Nor are Singaporeans just flipping the pages of the glossy property brochures or sadly gazing at the architectural models, wishing they were one of the frolicking toy figures in the miniature pool. They're buying too. Property developers sold 1,332 units of new private homes in February, a bumper sales crop that was the highest since August 2007, when the economy was booming. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...