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	<title>Ask for It by Name!</title>
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	<description>The Origins of Popular Product Names</description>
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		<title>Barbie</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call her the preternaturally perky perennial preteen product with a past.
Don&#8217;t tell the millions of Barbie devotees that have made Mattel&#8217;s doll a billion-selling global sensation since 1959, but Barbie&#8217;s original name wasn&#8217;t Barbie &#8212; it was the far more staid &#8220;Barbara.&#8221;  Ruth Handler, who founded Mattel in 1945 with her husband and another [...]]]></description>
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