Home Front: From the Toy Box to the Streets
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Outlandish garb earns smiles, and hazard pay, for actors willing to dress up as foodstuffs, cartoon characters and power tools.
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Marchets Toys &amp; Hobbies, a small shop tucked in the corner of Southgate Shopping Center, is a reminder of life before the big-box stores.
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Children in America are becoming deeply enmeshed in the consumer culture of getting and spending.
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry Ford envisioned two cars in every garage in America. I wonder, as the 21st century starts, if we shouldnât also make room in our garages for a scooter.
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The making of an American holiday--from socialist rallies to backyard barbecues.
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With their new crop of products that plug into the Internet, toy makers are placing bets on the longstanding enthusiasm among children for collecting things.
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Toys, joys, and noise will rock your world next week.
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This holiday, toys are popping up in the most unexpected places: gas stations, auto-parts chains, home and garden stores.
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Peapod Toys touts an MP3 player for the teething set. GadgetLab goes to the International Toy Fair in New York.
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The big trend at this year's American International Toy Fair is mature technology created for young users. Alexander Gelfand reports from New York.
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Blog: From the front lines on Fifth Avenue.
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By Julia Stuart  They come home from school, ignore their toyboxes and log on. Mouses in hand, they enter a virtual world and play with their dolls online. The real thing, it appears, is no longer cool.   There is a plethora of internet sites now catering for young girls.
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By Matt Glynn  Home shoppers can be excused if they feel deja vu when they walk into a home for sale.  Thanks to an explosion of technology tools, prospective buyers can "tour" a home before they pull into the driveway to check it out.
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By SHARON SHORT  Most of the items that decorate the walls in our home are pretty self-explanatory: family photos in most every room, framed book covers in my office, candles and vases, here and there.
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Toy safety should be at the top of your list when you select Christmas presents for children. Claudia McCormick, program director of the trauma center at the Duke University
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Compact kit for the thumb-generation