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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Toys "R" Us Sell Toilet Paper? | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...didn't come out until May 2007.) "When I asked to attend a focus group, they suggested not New York - in the same building - but Chicago," says another former staffer. "Joanne stayed at the Four Seasons. And two people from the art department turned their San Francisco focus-group trip into a multiday minivacation at company expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portfolio's Flameout, or How to Burn Money Fast | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...worked in his lab for the past two years, asserts that Giribet’s dedication is not particularly common. “I don’t know many professors who will sacrifice their Spring Break to teach students,” he says, referring to the trip to Panama that Giribet has offered yearly to the students enrolled...

Author: By Laura C Schaffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cassandra Extavour and Gonzalo Giribet | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

While Velez praises Giribet for his dedication, in her two years at Harvard, Extavour has also earned the respect and praise of many of her students. “She injured her rib at some point on the trip,” recalls Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini ’11, referring to the 2009 Panama trip he attended. “But she was so badass about it. She kept doing what everyone else was doing...

Author: By Laura C Schaffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cassandra Extavour and Gonzalo Giribet | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Without traffic, the drive to Mexico City from Cuernavaca usually can take just 50 minutes. Weekends are the exception, when the horrendous jams of vehicles returning from a quick trip outside the capital can snarl the highways for up to three hours. The close of this past weekend, however, was ghostly. The late afternoon drive on Sunday took only 45 minutes. Barely anyone was on the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu: Mexico's Lost Weekend | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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