Specially designed baby visits offer diversion for parents and stimulation for their progeny. But catering to the kiddie cognoscenti has its challenges.
The Philadelphia 76ers’ practice facility is one of the largest and most expensive in the NBA—an $82 million, 125,000-square-foot behemoth that boasts a hydrotherapy room, a recording studio and a full-service restaurant. It’s the morning of a home game versus the Miami Heat, and the 76ers have just finished a light practice on one of two regulation-size basketball courts.
Meanwhile, in the strength and conditioning center next door, five women ages 22 to 27 are stretching their wrists. If not for their team-sponsor Buffalo...
Specially designed baby visits offer diversion for parents and stimulation for their progeny. But catering to the kiddie cognoscenti has its challenges.
“My Best Friend’s Girl,” an early Cars hit that helped propel the new-wave band to stardom, is about stolen love—but songwriter Ric Ocasek says he wasn’t “out for revenge.”
Robots are used to direct the manic traffic in Kinshasa, but hit-and-runs are putting the tin men in rehab; plus, the solar-powered machines don’t always work on cloudy days.