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...Only recently, however, did Hollywood start producing toy-inspired movies for theaters. As the cost of making and marketing movies has gotten so high, producers have started searching for movies with built-in brand recognition. "We're all looking around and saying, 'What about properties that have withstood the test of time?'" says Avi Arad, a former toy designer and Marvel Studios executive who is a producer of the Bratz movie. Parents who can't stand the overtly sexy Bratz dolls will be relieved to find that they have cleaned up their acts for the movie. But they...
...CODE? The bulletproof plate has passed the National Institute of Justice's safety test. But Boston public schools have yet to decide whether the backpacks could be perceived as "threatening or offensive" under their dress code. If so, they will not be allowed on school grounds...
...also one of the brightest kids of her generation. When Annalisee was 3, her mother Angi Brasil noticed that she was stringing together word cards composed not simply into short phrases but into complete, grammatically correct sentences. After the girl turned 6, her mother took her for an IQ test. Annalisee found the exercises so easy that she played jokes on the testers--in one case she not only put blocks in the correct order but did it backward too. Angi doesn't want her daughter's IQ published, but it is comfortably above 145, placing the girl...
...beginning this week St. Francisville finds itself at the center of a media storm, playing host to a controversial trial over the deaths of 35 nursing home residents in the wake of Katrina, and the town's sense of decorum and good manners will be put to the test...
...essential question about Republicans this year: Given the Bush debacle and the possibility of a Democratic victory in 2008, how crazy are they willing to get? Are they tempted to pull another Goldwater and lose spectacularly, on principle, as they did in 1964? If the straw poll is any test, the answer is no. The Paul forces turned out mostly to be nonvoting out-of-staters. Tancredo tanked. The Iowans, including Taylor, even chose the milder brand of Christian conservative, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (with 2,587 votes), over Brownback (2,191). Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, went easy...