Toy Cars Lack Family Values
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The 2007 Hot Wheels lineup includes fun muscle cars and speed demons, but omitting practical and fuel-efficient vehicles sends the wrong message to kids. In Autopia.
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Tammi Houton, like a lot of parents yesterday, found herself surprised that peril could lurk behind some of the most familiar faces in children's toys. Elmo? Dora the Explorer? SpongeBob SquarePants?
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Let's be honest: There is no jolly old elf with flying reindeer who slides down chimneys and leaves gifts for every good little Christian boy and girl on Earth. That's ridiculous. But then, where do the presents come from?
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NEW YORK -- When Lisa Landry thinks ahead to holiday shopping for her 9-month-old son, Ari, her concern isn't which toy is most exciting. It's which is safest.
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The International CXT, a giant new pickup that puts the Hummer to shame, is the latest vehicular toy of the rich, famous and environmentally indifferent.
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Car buyers, tired of designs that roll  off the assembly line, are shifting gears to decades past.
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The car industry says low emission cars already exist, but that motorists do not want to buy them.
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The growth in electronic toys that sing, provide realistic sound effects and make other noises has led to yet another hazard for children, a consumer advocate group said Tuesday.
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Fast moving, fast spinning and fast stacking toys will be a hit with children this holiday season if kids have anything to say about it.
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SHANGHAI -- When Chery Automobile cars first appeared outside of China in 2001, they were ridiculed as a cheap attempt to trick purchasers into thinking they were buying Chevy vehicles instead of Chinese knockoffs.
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Safety experts say the influx of electronics is turning cars into sometimes chaotic â and distracting â moving family rooms.
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PLEASANTON, Calif. - The perils of parenting apparently can be discovered through a classroom project.  A startled 17-year-old girl swerved her car into a freeway guardrail and slammed into a pickup truck after the realistic-sounding baby doll in her care suddenly began to cry.
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Are dolls, blocks and stuffed animals fading away in favor of electronic gadgets, and is childhood fading with them?
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In the face of dwindling toy sales and intense competition from low-price rivals, Toys 'R' Us may be getting out of the game.
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Toy and gift maker rejects an unsolicited takeover offer as unworthy of further consideration.
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No studies exist to show that toys or videos designed to give children an intellectual edge over playmates do so.
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"Racing Stripes" is unlikely to ascend to the pantheon of perennially watchable children's films, but what it lacks in skill, it makes up for in heart.