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...line. In the past few years, the E.U. has toughened its regulation of companies. Last month, the members of the European parliament proposed to require more labels explaining where goods had been produced. In 2003, it outlawed the use of lead, mercury, and other metals in electronic products. E. Marla Felcher, an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government consumer safety expert who attended the talk, said she thought the “fundamental problem” was that since the 1970s, American toy makers have been able to choose when to disclose problems with their products...
...Harvard African-American studies and religion scholar Marla Frederick says many of the women with whom Bynum's preaching resonates have seen just as many reversals as in their own lives, and they yearn for a God who will ride the roller coaster with them. "Pentecostal faith is really about the power of the Holy Spirit to instantaneously transform life," she says. But she admits she personally is troubled that "taking a personal story and turning it into a narrative of triumph also becomes something that can be marketed for profit...
Local analysts believe Joe will regain his lead, though without Michael as campaign chairman. A year from now, Michael and the Baby Sitter and Joe and the Annulment will have joined Amy and Joey and Donald and Marla in the landfill of tabloid dreck. And to paraphrase Senator Kennedy's speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1980, the teeth still sparkle, the hair is thick, and the dream will never...
...early flight from Amman, Jordan, over Iraq's barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April of 2005. It was a tense 20 minutes or so, but I would later realize the moment offered only a sample of the kind of anxiety whenever you drive around Baghdad...
...child with a skill set or an ability that is incredibly accomplished, far beyond their years." They tend to be in chess, music and math, more in quantitative fields and less in qualitative disciplines, where "kids are gifted in ways that are hard to measure." But then there is Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old artist whom Quart visited, whose dozens of brightly colored abstract oil paintings have brought in $300,000, as well as calls from Oprah and David Letterman. Some prodigies make successful transitions to adult accomplishment, but others flounder as they get older. Gifted children, an intellectual...