4B = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THIS&THAT
TUESDAY,FEB.19,2002
WEATHER FORECAST
LEWIS
SOURCE: MATTHEW F. LAUBHAN http://chinook.phx.sukans.edu
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BY THOMAS AND MOZLEY
"Having different races is a lot funner," said 9-year-old Allister, who lives in O'Fallon, Ill.
Kids like Allister and Samantha were thrilled, even if some parents and other adults still needed to get used to the idea.
samantha, a white 10-year-
One new line, called the Ghetto Kids, was criticized by
Toy makers are taking note with new diverse doll lines, including the first multiracial Barbie. A Mattel spokeswoman said the new Barbie could be viewed as black, Asian and Hispanic — a "mix of cultures in one doll."
Diverse dolls newest toy trend
Industry experts said an increased demand and awareness of other cultures had spawned a new wave of diverse dolls.
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — One girl is black, the second white. But Allister Byrd and Samantha Arvin said the same thing when it came to playing with dolls.
They loved them in any color
—black, white—you name it.
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On her Web site, customers can choose everything from skin color to hair type and styles.
old who lives across the Mississippi River in suburban St. Louis, agreed. Last Christmas, she asked for a third black Barbie so she could recreate her favorite music group—Destiny's Child.
Adrienne Hymes, a Los Angeles doll maker, said she had seen more demand for dolls that weren't white in the past year.
"I just chalk it up to people being more open-minded now," said Hymes, who began making her dolls, now sold as a line called Hymakins.
some parents and TV commentators because its packaging included hard-hitting doll "biographies" that mentioned parents who were drug addicts, or who abandoned and even sold their children.
Officials at Chicago-based Teddi's Toys, who created the dolls, have since removed some of the made-up doll background. But they're keeping the Ghetto Kids name.
Marguerite Wright, a clinical psychologist from Oakland, Calif., said sometimes parents insisted that their children play with dolls of a certain race, usually their own.
"It's just a small step between forcing children to choose dolls according to skin color and forcing them to choose friends according to skin color," Wright said.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Identical
5 Model Kate
9 Small medicine bottles
14 Hunter's quarry
15 Med. sch. subj.
16 Pond scum
17 __ of Cleves
18 Speed
19 Dolly the sheep, e.g.
20 Whipped dessert
22 Puts in order
24 Gumbo veggie
26 Musical symbol
27 Russian empresses
31 Make downhearted
35 Beginning of fairy tales
36 Region
38 Missouri feeder
39 Gymnasts' pad
40 Rustic
42 $5 bill
43 Eat away
45 Light gas
46 "__ She Sweet"
47 Tranquil
49 Swedish turnip
51 Quote as a reference
53 Ms. Hayworth
54 Type of confinement
58 FDR center
62 Ornamental feather
63 Sleuth Wolfe
65 Frank and honest
66 Poe's middle name
67 ERA or RBI
68 Tidy
69 __ Ste. Marie
70 Fork prong
71 Industrial show, casually
DOWN
1 Electronic junk mail
2 Florence's river
3 Bill of fare
4 Blight on the landscape
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61
62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71
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5 Motherly
6 Lennon's Yoko
7 Poet Teasdale
8 Shock-jock Howard
9 "Mr. Hobbs 'Takes a ___"
10 Unhealthy state
11 Highly excited
12 Clark's Lois
13 Understands
21 Schuss
23 Angler's need
25 Moses' brother
27 Weighty works
28 Trap
29 Thespian
30 Waste conduit
32 Criminal organization
33 Maturing
34 Gossipy woman
37 Secret love affair
40 Remorseful sinner
41 Toxin neutralizer
44 Point of math?
46 Pacific coast
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle.
mollusk
48 Greek letter
50 Had a meal
52 German artist
Max
54 Health resorts
55 _ podrida
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56 Humdinger
57 Abominable snowman
59 Highest point
60 Tide type
61 Aware of
64 Operated
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