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By Doug Cunningham, The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 3--We're trying to turn the basement into a toyroom, hoping, I suppose, that the kids won't notice it's still the basement.

But it's new space for toys and tricycle riding. Like Manifest Destiny, the exploration of the frontier proceeds apace.

And like the Old West, the sheriff's power is limited. Our daughter, on the seat of her Kettler tricycle as she careens in a circle, vows to go too fast. Eyes aglint.

But if she does, she'll

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