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Another fast-growing youngster that has stolen business from the leaders is Imagic, which was incorporated just 18 months ago. Its popular cartridge, Demon Attack, was chosen the "game of the year" by an industry magazine, and the company's revenues are expected to reach $50 million this year. The firm had planned to cash in on its popularity and go public this month, but when the other shares got zapped, Imagic's stock offering was postponed...
...other day White House Gardener Irvin Williams looked proudly at the youngster. "It grew 4 ft. this year," he said, scanning the supple trunk that is planted about 12 ft. from the original Adams elm, which is weak and declining. The old tree was the tallest and grandest on the White House grounds until it was hit by lightning in 1965 and lost one of its huge limbs. Another storm in 1976 battered the tree even more, and now decay has begun to eat at the 4½-ft. trunk. Its leaves, once deep green and dense, are thinning. They...
...Whether I could keep my eyes open watching that thing blast off, knowing that Jeff is inside of it. I don't really know," Elizabeth Hoffman adds, recalling that "he never seemed like a real daredevil type" and was "basically very quiet and scholarly" as a youngster...
...most Halloweens, warm weather and a full moon would have brought hundreds of Cambridge youngster onto the streets in search of a trick or treat...
Ripley's signals a small trend among new shows to package a little educational value and, indeed, to use school as a significant backdrop. Voyagers!-exclamation marks appear to be a la mode this year-even ends with a plug to send the youngsters out to the library, where they can get the full scoop on some of the history the show has skimmed. A sort of hybrid of You Are There and the film Time Bandits, Voyagers! (NBC, Sunday, 7-8 p.m.) features Jon-Erik Hexum as a pilgrim from the future who crash-lands in the apartment...