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...Chinese health officials ordered six kinds of lipstick from two Shantou-based companies-including a strawberry-flavored variety-pulled from stores after they were found to contain SUDAN RED, an industrial dye known to cause cancer in lab animals. The dye, used to color petrol and floor polish, has also shown up in some Chinese chili powders and eggs...
...early to tell how Labor will play the election, but Beazley and his colleagues have been road-testing their ripest ideas. In the hand-to-hand combat of daily news, and the endless campaign loop, Labor is gaining ground on industrial relations, climate change and volatile consumer issues (petrol prices). So far, Beazley has rolled out "blueprint" statements on issues such as early childhood, energy and skills; his colleagues have released a range of policy discussion papers. Like a burlesque performer, Beazley is trying to keep voters interested in the dance without revealing too much skin early in the show...
...party's slant and policies are informed by the concerns of middle Australia-not the fripperies of abc Radio National listeners or Sydney's droning talk shops. Beazley's relentless message is that Labor is focused on the "kitchen table" issues that preoccupy families. Such as? Interest rates, petrol prices, schools, job security and Iraq. And because McMansions have formal dining rooms, and maybe because wine is so cheap, our dinner-party talk now extends to North Korea's nukes, terrorism, values, global warming and water policy. Seemingly vulnerable on many of the signal issues, John Howard has brought together...
...m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this fall and will probably find its way into U.S. rest rooms next year...
...Stratford might see two or three crimes a month, says Taylor, 52, just back from a month's sick leave for a torn hamstring. These might be a drive-off from a petrol station or drunken driving on the Princes Highway; this morning, reports have come in of graffiti on road signs on the outskirts of town. Last Christmas there was a spate of thefts of solar- powered garden lights that Taylor wasn't able to crack. "They're unsolved crimes," he says, as is the disappearance of a duck from a local house around the same time...