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  • New Entries for the Barbie

    New Entries for the Barbie

    After three seasons, “Mad Men,” the television series about advertising in the 1960s, has attained a level of popular-culture cachet. Soon, the show will enter a realm of the pop-culture pantheon that its creator, Matthew Weiner, says has surprised even him: Mattel plans to bring...

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  • New Career for Barbie

    New Career for Barbie

    Barbie is no longer the less- than –intelligent blonde she once was. She is now going to ramp as the professional geek in her new avatar. Barbie has had more than 100 careers since 1959, taking on the work of a fire fighter to an...

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