Parents Keeping Cabbage Patch Munchers

There hasn’t been a stampede to return the hair-eating Cabbage Patch kids despite the frenzy surrounding the munching dolls. Just over a week after El Segundo-based Mattel Inc. agreed to take back the dolls, only 1,000 have been returned to the nation’s No. 1 toy maker, leaving nearly half a million still in circulation, the company said. After about 100 reports of children getting fingers and hair stuck in the dolls’ battery-operated mouths, Mattel agreed to pay $40 for each doll returned.