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...Mattel found a face-saving way of taking back the blame that it had previously placed so squarely on its Chinese partners, the source of all the toys it recalled this year. The "vast majority of those products that were recalled were the result of a design flaw in Mattel's design, not through a manufacturing flaw in China's manufacturers," Debrowski said. "We understand and appreciate deeply the issues that this has caused for the reputation of Chinese manufacturers...
...Mending Limbs and Lives I enjoyed reading about the prosthetics designed to help amputee animals keep moving [Sept. 3]. (But if the author thinks readers will go so far as to endorse prosthetic dog testicles, she should think again.) This article implies that work with animal prosthetics exceeds advances in human ones. As an 82-year-old amputee, I've witnessed fantastic advances in prosthetic design. My current artificial leg uses electromagnetics and scanning to fit the specific contours of my stump. Prosthetics specialists are to be commended for the time, analysis and effort they put into getting each patient...
...fraction of space is obscenely costed, Zuma's 10,000 square feet (about 950 square meters) overlooking Queen's Road Central constitute the most impressive statement it might ever make. But if that sort of display leaves you unmoved, your eye will be gratified by the low-key interior design, in entirely natural tones, created by Studio Glitt's Noriyoshi Muramatsu and the ubiquitous Super Potato. Amid a smart-casual setting of stone, wood and glass, you'll find the expansive main dining room, an upstairs bar and a terrace for "outdoor dining" (read: smoking). But the focus, quite rightly...
...Credit Obin's multicultural childhood for her ability to design across borders. Of Chinese-Indonesian ethnicity, she grew up in Hong Kong and first became aware of clothing and style through watching laborers on the Wanchai docks in their baggy cotton pants, or the British businessmen in summer suits. "Hong Kong is a visual feast and I think I took a lot of that back to Indonesia," she explains...
...Upon moving to Jakarta at 14, she began collecting traditional fabrics, as well as picking up know-how from the artisans she bought them off. Not long after, Obin started designing patterns herself, and experimenting with techniques of producing batik, including the use of hand-woven silk instead of the usual cottons. When, at the age of 31, she finally opened a small outlet for her designs in central Jakarta, she became an immediate hit among the élite neighborhood's well-off shoppers. "Obin led a revolution in modernizing batik by translating traditional motifs into contemporary design," explains leading...