The dolls are emblematic of the interplay between entertainment and marketing, which is intensifying as consumers become harder to reach through traditional means like commercials (NYT photo) After three seasons,  Mad Men,  the television series about advertising in the 1960s, has attained a level of popular-culture cachet. There have been magazine cover articles, calendars and an episode of ...

Authorities were seeking the public's help in tracking down a 16-year-old girl who went missing last week from Southwest Side , Chicago police said today in an alert. The girl, who police identified as Melissa Guitierrez, went missing last Friday . Police said she was last seen in the area of the 5500 to 5700 blocks of South Mozart Street. The girl, who also has the nickname "Barbie," is ...

A Barbie doll is seen wearing a costume made by Philippines’ top fashion designers during a charity auction on Wednesday night at a hotel in Manila’s Makati financial district.

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Changes are again coming to the Valley Re-1 Board of Education. The board on Wednesday approved the resignation of Pat Montoya, who became the second person to resign from the board in a year. Christy Barlean resigned from the board last May, citing a tenuous relationship between her, Superintendent Jo Barbie and Marsha Harris, the president of the board. In making a motion on the issue ...

In years past, Barbie was programmed to say "Math class is hard." Her newest look and career shows that the popular doll isn't intimidated by numbers anymore.

The pope will deliver a letter tomorrow addressing abuse in Ireland as more critics call on him to resign over the Church's sex scandal in his native Germany. Barbie Latza Nadeau, author of the upcoming Beast Book Angel Face about Amanda Knox, reports.

In 2010, Barbie will take on careers in computer engineering, race car driving and broadcast journalism. See some of Barbie's many jobs over the past 4 decades.

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Barbie has been given a new transformation to appeal to 21st century youngsters.