Possessed: Long Before Legos, Wood Was Nice and Did Suffice
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The designer Tucker Viemeister is still very attached to a well-worn set of wooden blocks he has had since childhood.
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As soon as Kerry Triffin spotted a bed crafted from New Zealand rimu wood at a New York design show last year, he wanted to carry it in his Connecticut furniture shop. His wife had a different idea.
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The discovery of a nearly intact child's skeleton belonging to the earliest-known human ancestor suggests a creature that walked upright like a man but could swing through the trees like an ape.
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By ANDREW LIGHTMAN  LEGO COMPETITION  NORWELL  After pressing a few buttons, Meredith Jones watched her Lego robot push a toy truck onto a platform.  Then it pushed a red box several feet, precisely into a square. Then the robot dropped a ball into a container.
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Disneyland's 1957 "House of the Future" got very quaint very fast, but with an assist from some tech titans, a newer version may stick around for a while.
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As a boy, Will Wright liked to fiddle with models. The man behind The Sims phenomenon liked to make ships, planes, and most things mechanical.
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By Lauren Roth, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 13--NORFOLK -- Brick Hill wasn't much of a museum guy. Until a few weeks ago, the 14-year-old freshman would rather dash home to take apart a CB radio or build a boat frame with his dad.
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A piece of souped-up patio furniture spurs eight decades of comforting craftsmanship.
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Before there was Home Depot for shovels and mulch, before there was JoAnn Fabrics for thread and ribbon, there was Frank&#39;s Nursery.
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By DENNIS MCCANN  Fifield  There was nothing too dramatic in the look of the old tower. It wasn't majestic, like the Sears Tower, or leaning, like the Tower of Pisa, and in truth it didn't look much more substantial than something created from a child's erector set, only bigger.
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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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American International Toy Fair brings out goods from the likes of Hasbro, Lego and the maker of the original ant farm.
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Do those little pieces plastic mean freedom or slavery?
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At least one furniture maker still knows how to sell the stuff.
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Home Depot gets the headlines, but Builders FirstSource has the value.
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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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Recently our 67-year-old brick house was accosted by men armed with hydraulics. No one was seriously hurt, but our bank account took a good beating.