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They got together a group to sing a song to her at the South House holiday dinner, and as they sang they acted the song out. As a final momento, they gave her a teddy bear...
However, they didn't bear her the bear. Karen Petrone '87 came into the Admas House Secret-Santa-revealing party and saw someone fall onto the floor, writhing and groaning. One of his friends dropped to the floor and assisted him in his "labor." Since Petrone was the husband, Douglas Fitch '82, an Adams House tutor and her Secret Santa, started blaming her for the pain...
When Fitch's labor was through, he had delivered a bouncing baby teddy. "I'm trying to decide if I should name it after his mother," says Petrone, experimenting with "Dougy Bear...
While the big companies are busy scrapping over conventional toys, this year's biggest breakthrough, the talking bear, has come from small entrepreneurial firms. Filled with stuffing and wiring, these toys can speak, after a fashion, with their owners. The most popular is Teddy Ruxpin ($60 to $80), a 20-in. bear whose eyes and mouth move when it speaks from a recorded cassette. Ruxpin's voice comes from a tape player in its back. The manufacturer, Silicon Valley's Worlds of Wonder, will ship as many as 750,000 by Christmas but still cannot meet demand. Says Stewart Brown...
...months later, Columbia will bear a $55 million payload named Astro-1 that includes three ultraviolet telescopes and two wide-angle cameras. For much of the mission, the instruments will be studying such exotica as quasars, black holes and globular clusters, but for a while during the days that the five international probes encounter the comet, all of Columbia's eyes will be on Halley's. One of the Astro-1 telescopes will peer at very short wavelength light to see if it can detect such elements as helium, neon and argon, which would reveal something about what temperatures were...