premise: Nation cuddles Olympic mascots
  By Zhou Yan
  
  BEIJING, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- A panda cub waited for 10 weeks to get a name. Newborn babies are named after them. Anxious buyers thronged department stores for cuddly stuffed toys.
  Bei Bei, Jing Jing, Huan Huan, Ying Ying and Ni Ni won the hearts of the entire Chinese nation at the very instant they were unveiled as mascots of the 2008 summer Olympiad to be held in Beijing.
   Why did buyers throng department stores?
hypothesis: cuddly stuffed toys