In San Francisco, Itâs Work to Find Toys
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San Franciscans searching for the perfect toy this holiday season have had the added hurdle of finding a place to buy it.
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By Jon Swartz  SAN FRANCISCO -- Major players in the adult-entertainment industry, long in the vanguard of technology use, now find themselves playing catch-up.
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Despite ongoing hardships, the retailer shows glimmers of opportunity.
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Kelsey Reynoso, a two-year-old girl, looks at toys in a catalog, as her family lines outside the KB Toys store inside the Glendale Galeria mall Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, in Glendale, Calif.
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A dozen years ago, when Craig Newmark started sending out e-mails to friends about local events in San Francisco, he didn't realize his idea would grow into what is now Craigslist.
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let alone come down from the sugar rush - but for the toy industry, the focus is all about Christmas. Yesterday, trade magazine Toy Wishes
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When freelance writer Wang Jian shops for toys for her 5-year-old son, she's happy to pay extra for Legos blocks and Japanese-brand train sets.
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Paris Regional International Mission Enterprise (PRIME) set up shop in San Francisco, treating French scientists to inside looks at San Francisco-area technology research labs.
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The search for tiny treasures continues.
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FOSHAN, China  - Boxes stacked in the factory window are labeled clearly: "Fisher-Price", "toys", "preschool". The future of the plant, though, is not so clear.
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As I write this column, I'm flying from San  Francisco to New York City for three days of meetings at the American Museum of  Natural History on bringing the latest scientific data to the public via museums  and planetariums. I look forward to working with my colleagues. I'm also eager  to gaze again at their stunning collection of fossils and to travel to distant  locations in our universe at the Rose Center and the Hayden Planetarium, the  museum's digital planetarium. ...
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A visit to the Apple store in downtown San Francisco a little more than a day before the release of the product.
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Travel: San Francisco offers food, festivals and the chance to shake your tail feathers, says Alison Bing.
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I have recently begun to circulate through some of New YorkÂs secondhand stores nursing the vague hope that I may find something interesting or inexpensive.
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The battle of the bulge has expanded  into the toy aisles.
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Scientists say they have identified an area of the brain that may explain why some people are obsessed with collecting items.
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New York may have kicked off the iPhone line waiting, but San Francisco attracted the clowns, gay marriage tales and crazy picket signs.