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Recalls are meant to act as a safety valve, a quick way to get potentially dangerous products off store shelves before they do harm. Instead, the wave of recalls this year from China--the source of 80% of the world's playthings--has cast a cloud of suspicion over any toy carrying the MADE IN CHINA label. Keithley met with U.S. toymakers at a safety conference in China in July, and he says they all had one concern: "How can we tighten this...
LEGAL RESTRAINTS Illegal immigrants who physically resist deportation from Spain will now have to wear straitjackets, ostensibly to prevent them from self-harm...
...Khamenei, the bulk of its activities are not subject to parliamentary oversight. This free hand, along with their mandate to patrol the country's borders, has helped members engage in widespread smuggling, according to Iranian analysts. Some of the goods that are smuggled in, such as alcohol, do little harm to the formal economy, as they are illegal and produced domestically only on a small, illicit scale. More problematic is the large-scale smuggling of more ordinary goods, which enter the country without tariffs, flooding the market with cheaper versions of products produced at considerably higher cost by domestic manufacturers...
...arguing that reenlistment rates are high in Anbar. Would service members' concerns affect his decision about troop levels later this month? "The main factor that will affect my decision on troop levels is, can we succeed, what does it take to succeed?" Bush answered. "Because failure would lead to harm to America, is what I believe. As a matter of fact I'm certain...
...Words can't express how sorry I am for the harm I have caused to others, especially my family," Plotkin told the court on Tuesday...