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...most common source of elevated lead in American children isn't toys; it's old paint chipping off the walls in houses built before 1978, when paint containing the metal was banned in the U.S. Lead paint is loaded with up to 50% lead by weight, and that could go for paint used on the recalled toys...
...FALLOUT The Harriers stopped using flour for a while after 9/11. Paint may be a safer bet from...
...once a politician is branded as inauthentic, however unfairly, it's hard to shake the label. (Ask Gore.) And the Edwards campaign has not always done a good job of anticipating and shutting down potential lines of attack. In an attempt to paint Clinton as a creature of the corporate establishment, Edwards demanded that all candidates return their contributions from Rupert Murdoch and executives at News Corp., which owns Fox News. (Clinton has taken about $20,000 from them.) Murdoch's New York Post hit back with a story that Edwards had made $800,000 from a coffee-table-book...
...Internet search data reveals that given the two recalls, our pet's health is far more worthy of information-seeking than health issues surrounding our children. This month Mattel recalled almost 2 million toys worldwide for lead-based paint and other contamination issues. In response to the news, searches for the term "toy recall" spiked, nearly doubling the two-year average for all product recall searches...
...found that contaminants in hundreds of brands were causing cats and dogs to fall ill. Searches for pet food-related recall issues were over seven times that same two-year average, over double the number of toy recall searches. Certainly protecting our children from the dangers of lead-based paint is more important - or, at the very least, equally as important as tainted pet food - so why the difference in searches? Perhaps media coverage of the two recalls will shed some light on the difference in attention...