Friday, March 18, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Barbie's Ken turns 50!
On March 11, 1961, America's most fashionable teenager finally met her match. Introduced two years after Barbie, Mattel's Ken Carson was just a good-looking boy in red swim trunks with a crewcut. Here's a history of Barbie's longtime boyfriend
Original Ken (1961)
First introduced at the American International Toy Fair on March 11, 1961, Ken Carson made his debut in a red bathing suit and sandals. The original doll was sold for just $3.50 and marketed as Barbie's boyfriend.
Ken & Barbie
Barbie and Ken's iconic relationship ended in 2004, which Mattel announced the pair had split. The news rocked tabloids and news sites alike, and as Barbie became an independent, single woman, Ken fell behind until late 2010, when he opened his own Twitter account and hatched a public plan to win Barbie back — which he did in early 2011, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Sweet Talkin Ken (2011)
After Ken and Barbie's split in early 2004, Ken finally emerged from a few years of silence with a new digital presence and campaign to win Barbie back. With his new Web savvy attitude, fans were able to learn more about Ken Carson (He's a Dodger's fan and loves his new iPad) and were even allowed to give him tips on how to win Barbie's heart.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2058555,00.html#ixzz1GU8CiYr8
Original Ken (1961)
First introduced at the American International Toy Fair on March 11, 1961, Ken Carson made his debut in a red bathing suit and sandals. The original doll was sold for just $3.50 and marketed as Barbie's boyfriend.
Ken & Barbie
Barbie and Ken's iconic relationship ended in 2004, which Mattel announced the pair had split. The news rocked tabloids and news sites alike, and as Barbie became an independent, single woman, Ken fell behind until late 2010, when he opened his own Twitter account and hatched a public plan to win Barbie back — which he did in early 2011, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Sweet Talkin Ken (2011)
After Ken and Barbie's split in early 2004, Ken finally emerged from a few years of silence with a new digital presence and campaign to win Barbie back. With his new Web savvy attitude, fans were able to learn more about Ken Carson (He's a Dodger's fan and loves his new iPad) and were even allowed to give him tips on how to win Barbie's heart.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2058555,00.html#ixzz1GU8CiYr8
Coffee is good for you!?!
The study led by Susanna Larsson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm followed women aged 49 to 83 for an average of 10 years, and found that those who drank more than one cup of coffee a day had a 22% to 25% lowered risk of stroke, compared with women who drank less. Further, the study found, drinking little or no coffee was actually associated with a slight increase in stroke risk.
"Some women have avoided consuming coffee because they have thought it is unhealthy," said Larsson in a statement. "In fact, increasing evidence indicates that moderate coffee consumption may decrease the risk of some diseases such as diabetes, liver cancer and possibly stroke."
Still, the authors say their findings are preliminary and shouldn't change people's coffee-drinking habits. The past medical literature on the impact of coffee on cardiovascular health has been mixed, but much data support the current findings. As USA Today's Janice Lloyd reported: The results are consistent with findings on 83,076 women in the Nurses Health Study in the USA in 2009. In that study, women who drank four or more cups of coffee a day had a 20% reduced risk of stroke, compared with women who had less than one cup per month. That study distinguished between caffeinated and decaf; the decaf group had a slightly lower risk.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/10/study-drinking-coffee-may-lower-womens-risk-of-stroke/#ixzz1GU4SLISL
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