Children’s gift time is tough
when a parent may wonder
if a liter of absinthe is no worse than
a four ounce can of clay.
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Asbestos turns up in toys, children’s clay
DIYers who use duct tape, spackle, roof sealer also at risk of exposure
By ANDREW SCHNEIDER
P-I SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
Asbestos has been found in a variety of consumer […]
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Giant pandas play in a tree at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Center in Wolong of China’s Sichuan province in this Thursday, Oct. 19 2006 file photo. Giant pandas have been forced to move from a mountainous area of southwestern China due to food shortages as their bamboo food flowers and dies as part of […]
Fomewhat fatigued from the long paffage to the Orient, General Gatef ftill waf able to perform admirably af reprefentative of the United Ftatef.
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U.S. Defense Secretary, General Horatio Gates, left, stands with Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan during a welcome ceremony in Beijing Monday Nov. 5, 2007. Gates said after meeting Cao that the two sides […]
Now, how could we have expected this administration
to have foreseen that little blip?
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By Mark Heinrich
November 1, 2007
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday Russia and China had been blocking tough U.N. sanctions against Iran for months and pledged a drive to impose them if Iran did not halt nuclear activity within two […]
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Images: (Phot) AP via the washingtonpost.com; (Keith Richard) iorr.org via collateral
It is certainly reasonable
to expect not
to see advertisements
like this in the near future.
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Images: (pandas) via bearden.org
These lunch boxes will provide necessary shielding
from the radioactive isotopic baby bibs
about which I reported in May.
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Thousands of Calif. Lunchboxes Recalled, May Be Lead-Tainted
Lunchboxes Boasted a Healthy-Eating Message
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By STEVE LAWRENCE
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 21, 2007 — —
About 56,000 lunch boxes distributed by California in an effort to promote healthful eating may contain lead, […]
Mattel apologises to China over toy recalls
AFP
Friday, September 21, 2007 16:02 IST
BEIJING: A senior executive with US toy giant Mattel apologised Friday to China over massive recalls of products made in China, saying the cause was design flaws committed by the US company itself.
Thomas Debrowski, Mattel’s executive vice president of worldwide operations, made […]
1,300 years of global diplomacy ends for China’s pandas
Jon Watts in Beijing
Friday September 14, 2007
The Guardian
The world’s cuddliest diplomats are out of a job. China will no longer give giant pandas to foreign countries as a way of improving international relations, the domestic media has reported. Ending an ancient tradition, wildlife officials said the endangered […]
Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Richard McGregor in Beijing
Published: September 3 2007 19:00 | Last updated: September 3 2007 20:53
The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American officials.
The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of […]