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Experts tell us that play is a child’s work.

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Some people never really give up their toys, taking them way into adulthood. But when you see a toy chimpanzee sitting in a corporate board room, you have to wonder if this is taking the "toys for the big boys" deal a bit too far.
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Their objects of fancy: real-looking stuffed animals handmade by at least 300 Filipino workers of Hansa Toy International, one of the pioneering investors in the Clark special economic zone in 1994 and the ecozone’s first exporter.
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