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Mike Reagan, aged 19, was carrying a toy life-sized M-16 weapon which police officials said yesterday he pointed at Sgt. Stephan King, a public safety officer, after King saw the weapon and said "freeze, police." Two bullets struck Reagan in the leg and upper chest and he was originally in guarded condition in the intensive care unit at Los Altos Hospital in Long beach but was reported in stable condition yesterday...
...Barbie comes with "moveable hips" and Oriental Barbie invites youngsters to visit the "exotic" (what else?) East with her. They seem a small sideline of the Barbie empire, though; it is still the Barbie expressing good old American values that take up more display space than any other single toy...
After all, there was Lego's "Fabuland" to play with. The company that once brought children a challenging construction toy now markets sets "with special large components for fast and easy construction." And most of the pieces are too big to put in your mouth...
Star Wars spawned a whole new breed of toy--the "action figure"--with its enormous success half a decade ago; though Raiders of the Lost Ark didn't produce much in the way of statuary, there are still plenty of little dolls from other movies littering the shelves. "I don't think we'll ever get rid of our Empire Strikes Back stuff," one despairing salewoman said as she clutched Lobot and Ugnaught...
...most highly evolved predators in the natural world, is capable of dispatching a dozen mice at a brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grâce. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism. Cats toy with their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; instinctively cats do not always relate killing with the need to eat. When they finally do away with a mouse, it is with Darwinian perfection. The cat's teeth are so arranged...