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Save the toy. Save the world.

NBC has announced that Heroes action figures will be available in stores this summer. But could the Claire doll repair itself if it fell in a whirring garbage disposal?

--Robert Philpot

Richard Knerr, R.I.P.

Don't recognize the name? He's the co-founder of Wham-O, a company dear to the hearts of people, like me, who were kids in the '60s -- and whose "fads" have lasted till the present day. He died Monday; here's an obituary. And here's a blast from the past. -- Robert Philpot