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This week:

Come again? Kids make toys for monkeys in India?!

How does warmer weather in Canada help Santa Claus?

Why does the Russian-born high school senior go to the circus every week?

How does the rainbow stay in a bleak town in America?

And a quiz: Should kids have their own sub-domain addresses on the Web?

Kids create toys for monkey mates

Sunday November 17, 5:59 PM

By Sanket Upadhyay, Indo-Asian News Service

http://in.news.yahoo.com/021117/43/1xw1u.html

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) A group of children here spent Sunday creating a variety of toys for some special friends -- monkeys rescued from captivity.

Armed with watercolours, glace paper, ropes and cane baskets, 28 children in groups of four made a variety of toys and swings for the monkeys. They were taking part in a workshop for spreading awareness against cruelty to simians.

The toys are being made for around 200 sick and injured monkeys who have been rescued from their owners, mostly travelling entertainers. These animals are at a shelter in Haryana called Hanuman Vatika, run by People for Animals.

"I will make something so that the monkey can play as if he is in the jungle," said four-year-old Abhilasha as she wiped her brow while preparing a swing.

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Santa Claus Parade draws crowd of 65,000

Mild weather helps with huge turnout

Barbara Balfour Calgary Herald

Sunday, November 17, 2002

http://www.canada.com/calgary/news/story.asp?id={527B7E24-82D2-42A5-BC11-4AAF4532A705}

Bundled up in bright winter clothing, tens of thousands of children took over the city's downtown core Saturday, craning their necks from strollers, over bridges and Plus-15s.

They lined up on both sides of the street, tiny feet sticking out over the pavement, but not so far as to get in the way of the colourful parade they came to see.

More than 65,000 people turned out Saturday afternoon for the 21st annual Santa Claus parade.

The parade entries included appearances from the Grinch and Mrs. Claus, Chinese dragons, miniature horses and a well-loved annual favourite, the Calgary Stampede showband.

It's only in Calgary that a Christmas parade could include baton twirlers, boy scouts in jaunty Santa caps, and Wild West cowboys shooting blanks into the air.

While the parade was previously held closer to Christmas, the dates were recently changed to be aligned with all the other parades offered by major cities, and to encourage people to shop downtown at the start of the holiday season.

The city's unpredictable weather is also a major consideration.

"Back when we held the parade closer to Christmas, it would get so cold that our 401 Squadron of cadets needed to play their musical instruments out the windows of a school bus," said Dick Rosco, a long-time volunteer who sat on the Stephen Avenue Board and planned the first parades 21 years ago.

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A natural in the circus ring

It's family tradition

Nov 17 2002

By LUIS PEREZ

DAILY NEWS WRITER

http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/35828p-33902c.html

Irina Burdetsky draws ooohs and aaahs when twisting her 5-foot-3, 107-pound frame into a living sculpture, or turning it into a Slinky with 30 Hula Hoops on her gyrating torso.

The Russian-born contortionist and Hula Hoop artist, considered one of the best in the world, has lived in East Midwood since 1996, when she came to America at the age of 16.

Passion for performing has run in the family for three generations - she was born into the Burdetsky Circus in Moscow.

"My grandfather is a musical clown," said Burdetsky, sitting in her simple but brightly decorated studio apartment. "My mom is a very good aerial gymnast. My father is an acrobat, and I've been doing Hula since I was 6. All my friends from Russia were from the circus.

"My aunt used to work with bears," she added, laughing.

When not covered in glitter and decked out in a leotard, Burdetsky is a straight-A senior at Hunter College in Manhattan, where she will earn a degree in psychology, with a minor in biology, next spring. Burdetsky, who attended Edward R. Murrow High School, says she will pursue a career in medicine.

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Custodian of colors

Keeping the hues straight a big task

Shelley Emling - Cox Washington Bureau

Sunday, November 17, 2002

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/business_d37de19bb0f1918c00b6.html

Carlstadt, N.J. --- This is where the rainbow resides, inside a bland industrial building in the midst of New Jersey marshland.

Here there's not just blue but Vista Blue, Ballad Blue, Ethereal Blue and even Gap (the clothing store) Blue. There's not just red but Tango Red, Lipstick Red, Crimson and Sugar Coral.

There's a reason UPS brown and Barbie pink and Coca-Cola red are always the same brown and pink and red no matter where in the world you see them, and that reason is Pantone Inc.

Pantone's 1,932-color palette, sometimes called the Oxford English Dictionary of colors, provides a consistent reference.

Pantone got its start in the late 1940s when it was a printer of color charts for the growing cosmetics industry.

But then along came a young employee named Lawrence Herbert, who had been introduced to printing at the age of 12 in his school's print shop. The savvy pressman would buy and turn around the troubled company just in time for the psychedelic eruption of the 1960s.

Today Lawrence Herbert, whose favorite color is green, oversees 150 employees --- Lisa Herbert and his other children are executives at the firm --- and an operation that spans the globe.

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Law to create Web subdomain for kids

Marilyn Geewax - Cox Washington Bureau

Sunday, November 17, 2002

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/business_d37de1dcb0f1626100c7.html

Washington --- The Internet soon will have a child-friendly neighborhood, located at ''.kids.us.''

President Bush is expected to sign the bill.

Proponents say the measure will help parents protect children from online predators.

''This new law will give children their own playground on the Internet and will facilitate the easier browsing and filtering of content that many parents desire,'' Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), a lead sponsor, said.

Among those who question the value of the new subdomain is Esther Dyson, former chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the technical coordination body for the Internet.

Creating a subdomain for children ''is a fine idea in theory, but in practice, it puts too much burden on the system ''Notions of what is suitable for kids vary too much across cultures, religions, political leanings, et cetera, that a '.kids.us' would simply promise something it cannot --- and should not --- deliver.''

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