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• Reading the News, Thinking about Charlie

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:59 am

  Tags: Toys, Food And Diet, Charlisms, Living Arrangements, Health, Neuroscience, Animal Rights, Animals, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Dora The Explorer, Education, Elmo, Family, House, New York Times, News, Newspaper, Obesity, Octagon, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  in the chicken suit, or on Dora the Explorer. I have found him dangling his iPod by the headphones. Charlie is very circumspect about certain of his possessions—-his photos, said music-playing device, three of Jim’s coats (2 blue, 1 green), his picture calendar schedule that his ABA consultant puts together for him every month. (He

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• Toy Recall

  Published: August 7, 2007, 11:20 am

  Tags: Mattel, Parents, Dora, Fisher Price, Diego, Children, Sesame Street, Toys, Recall

  Sesame Street, Dora, and Diego toys being recalled. You can find it at www.mattel.com. Apparently, some genius with their company decided it would be a good idea to save a few bucks by having their toys manufactured in China where the standards of production are low enough that they managed to use lead paints on their toys. This

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• Phone company's model waits months for phone

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:52 pm

  Tags: Customer Service, Customerservice, Dora, Duetshce Telekom, Duetshcetelekom, Media, Model, Phone

  is the problem that Dora, a German supermodel, is having with Deutsche Telekom -- the phone company that features her as the face of their current advertising campaign. The model had planned to use the company's phone service, but recently threatened to go with another carrier after it took over three months to get her land line

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• Eva Longoria wants trilingual kids

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:34 am

  Tags: Bilingual, Cartoons, Celbrity Parents, Celbrityparents, Diego, Dora, English, Eva Longoria, Evalongoria, French, Go Diego Go, Godiegogo, Language, Spanish, Speedy Gonzales, Speedygonzales, Tony Parker, Tonyparker, Trilingual

  Filed under: Moms, Dads, Speech, Literacy, Celebrity parentsMy husband and I have not done a very good job when it comes to helping Ellie learn to be bilingual. Despite the fact that my husband speaks fluent Spanish, most of what Ellie has learned has come from school, not him. He does reinforce what she is taught at school, but teaching a child

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• Chinese toy maker commits suicide after recall

  Published: August 14, 2007, 4:28 am

  Tags: Bid Bird, Bidbird, Chinese Products, Chinese Recall, Chineseproducts, Chineserecall, Dangerous Toys, Dangeroustoys, Diego, Dora, Elmo, Fisher Price, Fisherprice, Hansheng, Lead Paint, Leadpaint, Lee Der, Leeder, Recall, Recalls, Safety, Southern Metropolis Daily, Southernmetro

  as Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego.Chinese products have been getting a lot of negative attention lately due to the presence of high levels of toxins and chemicals. Just days before the suicide, the Chinese quality watchdog group, General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, announced a ban on exports by the

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• Eva Longoria wants trilingual kids

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:34 am

  Tags: Bilingual, Cartoons, Celbrity Parents, Celbrityparents, Diego, Dora, English, Eva Longoria, Evalongoria, French, Go Diego Go, Godiegogo, Language, Spanish, Speedy Gonzales, Speedygonzales, Tony Parker, Tonyparker, Trilingual

  Filed under: Moms, Dads, Speech, Literacy, Celebrity parentsMy husband and I have not done a very good job when it comes to helping Ellie learn to be bilingual. Despite the fact that my husband speaks fluent Spanish, most of what Ellie has learned has come from school, not him. He does reinforce what she is taught at school, but teaching a child

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• The N and Noggin to split into new channels

  Published: August 19, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: All That Nick Jr, Blues Clues, Degrassi, Dora The Explorer, Gigantic, Interns, Kids, Noggin, Queen Bees, South Of Nowhere, Teens, The N, Then, Tweens

  and Nick Jr. properties like Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues and The Backyardigans. The N, originally the evening version of Noggin aimed at teens (and "tweens" to use a meaningless marketing term), will expand to 24 hours with TEENick programming during the day (All That, The Amanda Show, etc) and original programming at night: Degrassi: The

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• Hungry For Power, Maddox Takes Over Camp Jolie-Pitt, Makes Family Walk Plank

  Published: August 20, 2007, 5:59 pm

  Tags: Back Door, Dora The Explorer, Jolie Pitt, Maddox, Mohawk, Museum, Power, Trail Mix, Walk The Plank, Zahara

  through another episode of Dora the Explorer ("Explorer? Hah! Walk a mile in my shoes!") and misses the days when he got carried, too. Maddox is sick of playing second fiddle to the others - he was here first! So he decided to take over. He should be in charge anyway. On their way out to visit yet another museum, Mom and Dad let Maddox lag

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• Nickelodeon and Imation unleash a slew of kid-centric technology

  Published: September 19, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Children, Dora The Explorer, Doratheexplorer, Go Diego Go, Go Diego Go, Imation, Kids, Nickelodeon, Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebobsquarepants, Tots, Tween

  camera (available in both Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go! models), $59.99 SpongeBob Squarepants Flash Micro Digital Camera, with USB connectivity, $21.99 SpongeBob Squarepants VGA digital camera, auto-flash, 1.1-inch color LCD, 8MB, $31.99 SpongeBob Squarepants 1.3-megapixel digital camera, auto-flash, 1.1-inch color LCD,

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• Nickelodeon unveils an array of tween-centric devices

  Published: September 26, 2007, 10:07 pm

  Tags: Diego, Digital Photo Frame, Digitalphotoframe, Dora, Dora The Explorer, Doratheexplorer, Imation, Nickelodeon, Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebobsquarepants

  if you're not 7, including Dora / Diego and SpongeBob-branded cameras in resolutions from VGA to 3.0 megapixels, a Dora the Explorer portable CD player, a SpongeBob 15-inch LCD TV and progressive-scan DVD player, and a whack-SpongeBob-to-snooze alarm clock. The best of the bunch appears to be the $100 7-inch picture frame, however, which has a

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• Two Pablo Picasso works could fetch $65 million

  Published: October 4, 2007, 2:06 am

  Tags: Pablo Picasso, Sothebys, Auctions, Tete De Femme Dora Maar

  will be Tete de femme (Dora Maar) and La Lampe, two important works of Pablo Picasso. Both works from the family Picasso, which have never before been put up at auction, will be on view at Sotheby’s London from Oct 7 to 12 and in New York from Nov 2 to 7 preceding their sale on the evening of Nov 7 in New York. The Tete de

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• Halloween Nickelodeon Style

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Nickelodeon, Gifts, Spongbob Squarepants, Halloween Costumes, Nick Shop, Backyardigans, Dora The Explorer, Halloween Dvds, Nickelodeon Com, Shopping, Avatar, Blue's Clues, Halloween Books, Nick Jr

  Costumes like Avatar, Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues, SpongBob SquarePants and more. - Currently take 20% off All Costume's at Nick's Halloween Shop !  Valid 10.6.07-10.20.07Also check for those needed Nickelodeon holiday gifts, including Toys, Games, DVDs, Videos, Books,

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• Stewing at the Food Truck

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Stewing, The, Food, Truck, Dora Escobar, Juan Rivas, Prince George S County, United States, Cesar Lambastida, Takoma Park, El Salvador, Mexico, Prince George S Council

  The economic rise of Dora Escobar can be charted by the signs posted on the bright blue stucco building she rents along University Boulevard in Prince George's County.

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• Rosie In Talks For New Show, Seeks To Topple Larry King From Throne

  Published: November 6, 2007, 9:54 pm

  Tags: Dora The Explorer, Great Poet, Hillary Clinton, Larry King Live, Msnbc, Rosie

  like Hillary Clinton versus Dora the Explorer. According to the New York Times via People, MSNBC is in preliminary talks with the great poet and her peeps about a prime-time talk show that would compete directly with Larry King Live. Cable could be a better fit than network TV for Rosie as she'd be less constrained from expressing her various

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• Wallace's Shooter, Reticent, Nears Release

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wallace S, Shooter, Reticent, Nears, Release, Arthur Bremer, George Wallace, Maryland, Maryellen Snodgrass, David Blumberg, Richard Nixon, Charles Colson, Dan T Carter, Alabama, Wisconsin, Howard Johnson International Inc, Abraham Lincoln, Dora Thompson, Europe, George Mcgo

  When he was last free, Arthur Bremer came to Maryland armed with a snub-nosed revolver and a plan to make himself famous. He had stalked President Richard M. Nixon for weeks and then settled, reluctantly, on an easier target.

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