1.   And near the cash register, a young boy swivels a hula hoop while gleefully working the buttons to a pop-up toy.

2.   Attempts by cities and states to create or recruit a biotech economy have become something of a fad, the hula hoop of economic development.

3.   But would one loss to China turn the entire experience into a pet rock or a hula hoop?

4.   Children were then put to the test as they aimed to place their casts inside a hula hoop floating in Possum Creek Pond.

5.   Especially when the popularity of track and field, here in the cradle of its greatest stars, is going the way of the hula hoop.

6.   Hula hoops originated in California, not to mention ebonics.

7.   Imagine walking around with a hula hoop in your hemline and envision sitting in a car.

8.   In the middle, a young woman is standing on her hands while a hula hoop spins around her foot.

9.   Let the baby boomers turn eye lifts into the hula hoop that everybody has to have.

10.   Like the hula hoop and Earth Shoes, this vintage relic of the past has been making a big comeback.