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...experts who claim that children have ''little room for improvisation'' when playing with toys based on TV shows. My sons, ages 9, 6 and 3, are fans of G.I. Joe, Transformers and Voltron and own some of the toys. They spend hours creating their own versions of stories, using wooden blocks, paper sacks, bedroom furniture and whatever else is not tied down. Certainly children's TV could be improved, but some adults overestimate its negative influence. Liane T. Fenimore Bexley, Ohio
Diners last night found the restaurant back to normal, save for a wooden board where the shattered glass wall had previously stood...
...wife Anne Legendre Armstrong, a former ambassador to Britain and a longtime Cheney friend, played host. For all that, Armstrong Ranch is countrified rather than ostentatious. At the entrance is a utilitarian "bumper" gate, so named because you nudge it open with your vehicle. Guests usually stay in wooden ranch dwellings near the main house, which are furnished with antiques but few frills...
...next three years." And if he did call a snap election, Thaksin is assured of at least one vote. Back in At Samart, Grandma Ouan tells a reporter that the cow Thaksin promised still hasn't showed up. As if on cue, a motorcycle roars up to her modest wooden house. On the bike is a young veterinarian from the Ministry of Agriculture with papers for Ouan to sign so he can bring her the cow. She won't actually own the animal; the government is lending it to her for five years. But she can keep any calves. What...
...corner of the building, coming to a stop partially wedged in the wall and nestled in the adjacent shrubbery. According to the owner of the car, Richard Palmer of Framingham, Mass., “the [valet] said the car kept accelerating.” Other than a heap of wooden fence debris and a dislodged window screen, the damage was concentrated around the 10-foot tall gash where the car penetrated the building. “At first I heard the squeal of tires,” said Scherer, who was on the second floor of the library...