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Their solution is a three-part safety plan, announced Sept. 5: a federal requirement to make safety testing mandatory; new, industry-wide standards for testing procedures; and certification for independent labs. Keithley says the labs may devise a logo to be stamped on toys indicating that they meet federal standards. Most large companies in the U.S. use both internal and third-party testing, but there is no legal requirement and therefore no uniform method of testing or seal of approval that might restore consumers' trust. For many products, including toys and children's jewelry, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC...
...holiday advertising. Hasbro has reduced the number of contractors it uses, to keep tighter control of the production process, and it too has increased the number of spot checks. That's good news for the checkers. "Our phones are ringing off the hook," says DeRagon of the STR testing lab, which tracks toys from initial design to batch testing of wet paint to audits of contractors' factories...
...ever to locate the physical roots of these bizarre perceptions of self. For example, neurologists have studied amputees who can feel sensation where their missing limbs used to be; researchers think this phantom limb phenomenon has to do with rewiring in the brain's somatosensory cortex. And, in the lab, researchers have been able to make people feel that fake rubber hands are attached to their own bodies. (This was done simply enough, by touching the participants' real hands while having them watch the rubber hands be touched in the same way and the same time.) Now, there...
...these lab experiments really feel like a true out-of-body experience? "It's very vivid," says Ehrsson of his test. Participants say they really did feel like they were outside of their bodies. People in both sets of studies found the experience "weird." Some of Ehrsson's subjects described the experiment as "cool" and giggled, while some in Blanke's study called it "irritating." But the extent to which the experiments succeeded "depends what you mean by the full-blown out-of-body experience," says Ehrsson. "Of course you know that it's not real, that...
...last year, however, Indonesia has refused to share samples, claiming that international drug companies were using Indonesian H5N1 strains to produce vaccines, which they would then sell at prices developing countries couldn't afford. Though Jakarta sent samples from one of the new cases to a WHO-affiliated lab at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta - a move some experts say was done to send the signal that nothing was being hidden on Bali - the larger dispute has yet to be settled. "I think there's progress on this, but we'd suggest a greater urgency," says John Rainford...