Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come out until Sept. 8, and kids are going berserk. It's not enough that there are more than 1.7 million copies of the first two books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in print in the U.S.; young readers want the new one, and they want it now. In the Henderson-Nold household in Berkeley, Calif., Nick, 12, and Will, 10, were so desperate for the next fix that Nick and his mother, Susan Henderson, went straight to the Internet, where they struck gold. More than a month before...
...British publisher Bloomsbury--an increasingly sticky issue of territorial rights raised by the borderless Internet. For now, Scholastic is bowing to copyright laws that permit the export of one copy per customer "for personal use." Says Arthur Levine, the series' U.S. editor: "It's not an issue I even want to talk about." In the future, though, he'll be taking no chances: the fourth Harry Potter will be released simultaneously in Britain and America next year...
After years of dormancy, Vacation Bible School is once again attracting families who want to expose their children to spiritual teachings. This summer churches, synagogues and mosques are offering educational and camping programs, and are seeing a boom in attendance, according to the National Council of Churches. The organization points to the highly competitive market for Vacation Bible School materials, with 20 publishers offering dozens of snazzy programs that are designed to appeal to kids' interests. "A Great Bibleland Dig," for instance, combines archaeology with Bible stories...
...want to wait for the next recession in the U.S.? Consider buying Japanese auto stocks now. The economy there is bad but not getting worse. And Toyota, Honda and Nissan are well positioned to benefit from the next hot vehicle--the car-SUV hybrid. The bell ringer in that group is the Lexus RX300, which has seen sales explode 150% this year. It's built on a car frame, not a truck frame, yet sits above traffic, satisfying the No. 1 reason consumers give for buying an SUV. Swapping U.S. for Japanese car stocks isn't unpatriotic...
...with The Great Escape playing on both screens. Now the company he ran, AMC Entertainment, operates 218 theaters (and 2,729 screens) in 23 states and several countries including Spain and Japan. "Our goal is to say to the customer, 'We love ya,' " he said in 1996. "We want to make your stay pleasant...