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Toys don't get much more classic than Lincoln Logs: interlocking brown wooden pieces that kids since 1916 have used to build frontier cabins and fences. Under manufacturer Hasbro, Lincoln Logs languished in recent decades. But three years ago, a small company based in Hatfield, Pa., called K'Nex, licensed the brand and found ways to push it into stores. Ever since, the toys have been tumbling into shoppers' carts. With $50 million in sales this year, they're more popular than ever...
...evidence suggests that while some kids are asking for these vintage favorites, parents and grandparents are also driving up demand and not just out of nostalgia. In a recessionary economy, parents who can't spring for a $300 XBox may still satisfy their kids with a less pricey updated classic, say, a Harry Potter Lego set. Cheap, classic board games are getting a boost too. Diane Quaiver of Villa Park, Ill., says her 18-year-old daughter lately spends more time at home with her boyfriend and other friends. "They play UNO, Monopoly," she says. "They haven't gone...
...Kelly: Well, the classic definition of TIME's Person of the Year is the person who most affected the events of the year, for better or for worse. I think what has happened over the years is that the Man of the Year title, Person of the Year title, has become non-honorific. It was never meant to be solely that...
...like producing a Warner Bros. film. "We do all this market testing," Levin says, but "the big mistake is we don't know how to end a movie." In choosing a well-liked, up-by-the-bootstraps guy like Parsons, AOL Time Warner has fashioned a classic Hollywood ending to the Levin era. But Parsons has to deliver a strong performance on earnings growth before the audience will stand up and cheer...
...whole operation." (They did not include bin Laden's "spokesman," the Kuwaiti Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who- in a glimpse into the everyday life of a terrorist- turns out to be a soccer fan.) St. Andrews' Ranstorp thinks the tape suggests that the Sept. 11 attacks fit into a classic al-Qaeda pattern: an operation is conceived in the field (in this case, by Mohamed Atta, who is thought to have piloted American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to hit the Twin Towers), then referred back to the leadership in Afghanistan for approval...