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Milton Levine, co-inventor of the classic Ant Farm educational toy, has died. He was 97. His son, Steven, tells the Los Angeles Times that Levine died of natural causes on Jan. 16 at an assisted-care ...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. – A billion ants carried Milton Levine’s three kids through school. In fact, the pesky insects have been making him money for five decades. “I have a lot of empathy for them,” ...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — A billion ants carried Milton Levine's three kids through school. In fact, the pesky insects have been making him money for five decades. "I have a lot of empathy for them," ...

“Our toys interest the same kids who buy video games,” Steven Levine was saying, only the slightest bit defensively. We were upstairs at the Westlake Village headquarters of Uncle Milton Industries ...

Milton Levine took the pledge years ago: “I will not kill an ant,” he says reverently. “They put my three kids through college.” At a time when scientists were splitting atoms and building rockets, ...

Milton Levine, the co-inventor of the classic Ant Farm toy that gave millions of youngsters a sneak peak into the underground lives of insects, died Jan. 16 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 97. Uncle ...

LOS ANGELES — Milton Levine, co-inventor of the classic Ant Farm toy that gave millions of youngsters a sneak peak into the underground lives of insects, has died at age 97. Levine died of natural ...