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...economy that the alternative--waiting until China changes its ways--won't fly. There is still time to hope that China's way into the world will be a smooth one. Perhaps above anything else, the sheer scale of China's domestic agenda is likely to act as a brake on its doing anything dramatically destabilizing abroad...
...temptingly juicy targets for the Hizballah men keeping an eye on them from the corner of a house in Beit Yahoun. The tanks were later joined by another Merkava and an armored bulldozer, which brazenly crossed the main road leading into Bint Jbeil, causing consternation to motorists forced to brake to an unexpected halt. Further east, huge clouds of yellow dust rose into the sky as Israeli armored vehicles plowed through the rocky grassland. The Israeli movements were closely observed by Hizballah men, who have foregone their normally unobtrusive presence and are now swarming over all the villages...
...rate of 5.2% in May--enough to take some of the fun out of shopping. But Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, is on the case. The Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point last month, the 17th straight increase, in its efforts to gently brake the economy by reining in spending. Retail sales fell ever so slightly in June, according to a Commerce Department report, but consumers hoarding money just to pay for gas won't help the inflation fight. The real test will come this week when the government announces how much consumer prices...
Gass started his experiments by running a small electrical charge through the blade of his Delta power saw. Whenever the blade was touched, the body would absorb some of the charge like a circuit breaker and immediately trigger the brake. He built a prototype, videotaped the demonstration and tried to license his invention to power-tool manufacturers like Delta. "One company said, 'We decided not to pursue this because the marketing guys say safety doesn't sell,'" he recalls...
...Purpose Cleaner, with ingredients like "surfactant (unspecified)." With another Mr. Clean ingredient, the MSDS informed me that there is "no information about the [product's] potential for carcinogenicity." I was able to follow the trail of one chemical, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, which evidently appears in everything from brake fluid to hair dye. Although the MSDS measures workplace exposure, which can be far greater than the amount one would encounter at home, the Hazardous Substances Data Bank toxnet.nlm.nih.gov warned that "results of limited repeated dose oral work reported suggests that material may be rather toxic when inhaled or absorbed through...