Word: poohing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...time before they invented a touch-screen handheld for kids. The C-Book Reader ($50) may actually help the little ones learn to read. The device, which will go on sale in early 2001, runs animated stories from cartridges. Among the first six titles are Disney's Winnie the Pooh and 101 Dalmatians. Kids can read the text, flip page by page along with the narration or watch a primitive animated version. For Mom and Dad's sake, the reader comes with a headphone jack...
...nice family atmosphere," said Jim Rafferty, a lawyer who represents a number of local establishments including The Grille. An ice cream-smudged Kelly Rafferty held bear-shaped balloon in her arms. She had named it Winnie the Pooh, she said. Her favorite part of the day: "Being with my daddy...
...woman took my blood pressure, placing my left hand on her lovely shoulder, which drove my blood pressure up--and democracy was evident everywhere. Muslim women in elegant gray chadors sat whispering in the same waiting room with stolid farmers and their wives, geezers and geezerettes next to minor Pooh-bahs and nabobs yakking on cell phones. Snatches of French and German drifted by, and Japanese, and Minnesotan ("So you think it's going to be a long time then? Or no?"). And all of us praying the same continuous silent prayer to the Great Internist to let the tests...
COLA CRAZY Though the soft-drink industry pooh-poohs the findings, a small study shows most cola drinkers can't taste the difference between caffeinated and caffeine-free products. Why care? Cola makers have contended they add caffeine to impart a bitter but pleasing flavor. The study's authors claim they do so to get cola fans hooked...
...loathes the rest and isn't good at hiding how he feels. And it's intriguing that Gore, who is so often accused of being artificial and insincere, has his greatest difficulty with the most artificial and insincere parts of the process: bonding with the local party pooh-bahs, pretending that donors are friends, feigning affection for the media horde. "He loves the work of government but not the work of getting elected," says a former adviser. "The guy's an introvert. Putting himself out there is an act of enormous will. He tries and tries and tries, and then...