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 […]
Book Tells Of Dissent In Bush’s Inner Circle
White House Granted Author Unusual Access
By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 3, 2007; Page A01
Karl Rove told George W. Bush before the 2000 election that it was a bad idea to name Richard B. Cheney as his running mate, and Rove later raised objections to the nomination […]
Fisher-Price Recall List
Nearly 1 MillionToys Recalled For Excessive Amounts Of Lead
Aug. 2, 2007
(AP)
(CBS) Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of Chinese-made toys - including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters - because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.The recall, announced on Aug. 1, involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a […]
Wal-Mart To Test Bible Action Figures In 425 Stores
Dow Jones
July 17, 2007: 12:11 PM EST
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Tuesday it will test sales in some stores of biblical action figures whose makers say they are aimed at Christian parents who prefer their children play with Samson, David or Noah rather than with a comic […]
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WASHINGTON — More than 1 million of the popular “Thomas & Friends” wooden railway toys made in China are being voluntarily recalled because some may contain lead paint, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Wednesday.
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Counterfeit Colgate toothpaste recalled
Antifreeze chemical found in tubes in 4 states; no injuries reported
Updated: […]
Robert Fisk: America’s plan for Baghdad
Divide and rule. A new counter-insurgency strategy to carve up the city into sealed areas.
The tactic failed in Vietnam. So what chance does it have in Iraq?
Published: 11 April 2007
Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad - despite President George Bush’s “surge” in troops - US forces in the […]
The universe is a string-net liquid
* 15 March 2007
* From New Scientist Print Edition.
* Zeeya Merali
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(Image: Elmar Lackner/Mindat)
In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of “particles” with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives […]
£1bn merger creates leisure empire built with wax and plastic bricks
· Merlin, owner of Legoland, buys Tussauds group
· Combined business now nearest rival to Disney
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David Teather
Tuesday March 6, 2007
The Guardian
It might seem like a strange remnant from another era, a curio designed to tickle the Victorians. But if the queues snaking down Marylebone High Road […]
The Vermont Teddy Bear Company has made great strides in the realm of marketing a product which is hard to ignore. Their web site displays scores of items for people of all ages.
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Mad About You
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Love Bandit
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Sweetheart Bear
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Hoboken Teddy Bear Outfit Local #9 began as satellite of ILGWU in 1922. It split to form its […]
I hope no one has trouble with their Junior Wage Servant Lead Smelter.
985,000 Easy-Bake Ovens are recalled
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An Easy-Bake Oven is seen in an undated file photo. Hasbro Inc. agreed on Tuesday to voluntarily recall nearly 1 million of its toy Easy-Bake Ovens because children’s hands can get caught in the opening, the U.S. Consumer Product […]