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...almost anything we can do to increase exposure for women’s collegiate athletics is okay in my book,” Russell said. Young female athletes, starting as young as five, six, or seven years old, need role-models just like their peers who are boys. If a young boy wants to grow up to be the next Michael Jordan or Babe Ruth, who does a young girl want to grow up and be the ‘next...
...yours to choose from, and that was about it. No more. Last week Coach, a maker of luxury leather bags, shoes and accessories, joined Tod's, Moschino and Burberry in catering to upscale kids. Among Coach's mini-me offerings: a zip pack suitable for bringing a Game Boy surreptitiously to school ($98) and a C-print crusher hat ($68) that looks just like Mom's. Why cater to kids? David Lockwood, a manager at Mintel, a Chicago-based consumer-market researcher, says that while the overall clothing market has been weak, children's apparel is a $28 billion market...
Think you're lonely? A $65 doll that complains, catches cold and demands Christmas presents has a fanatic following in Japan--among grownups. Primo Puel, the computerized toy, develops a "personality" based on how it's treated, bleating out 285 phrases in the voice of a 5-year-old boy. Japanese toy giant Bandai first marketed the doll to children. Instead, says a spokeswoman, 70% of the 800,000 sold have gone to women ages 40 and older--"grandparents, childless couples, single-child families...
...China's new anonymity might enable criminals to outwit even more sophisticated police work. The accused killer in Henan province, Huang Yong, reportedly picked up boys in Internet parlors in his rural county and brought them home before torturing and killing them. According to police, Huang even buried six bodies in his yard without attracting attention; he was caught only when one boy escaped. Police have so far resisted one obvious measure to fight crime: better public relations. They curtailed newspaper reporting on the growing number of missing boys until the killer had been apprehended, and they have ordered newspapers...
...freshman, boy, he was a horse today,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...