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...SMOKING LILY Once a scarf-making business in Victoria, British Columbia's second city, Smoking Lily now has a much wider range, embracing clothes, accessories and linen. Many items retain the label's signature plant and insect prints. Tel: (1-604) 873 5459; smokinglily.com...
...These Towers Safe?" [June 20]: Nuclear power plants are the most heavily defended elements of our civilian infrastructure. Their defenses--at the direction of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and with a cost of roughly $1 billion to the industry--have been upgraded significantly several times since Sept. 11, 2001. The article unfortunately relies heavily on opinions that do not present an accurate picture of current plant defenses and strategies. The NRC has worked closely with law-enforcement and security agencies at all levels of government to develop protective measures and an integrated response. TIME's story cited...
...S.S.A.?six Shan were killed and 31 injured, he says?but also caused U.W.S.A. casualties and sowed panic in its ranks. Today the Wa fortifications below seem deserted, but Yawd Serk's soldiers are taking no chances. Nearby, on grassy slopes recently littered with Wa corpses, they plant fields of punji stakes made from sharpened bamboo to prevent a repeat assault...
...reading the labels on some of the processed foods. We have a farm that [uses] no pesticides, no hormones, no additives--just compost and hard work. And we grow natural. I must say it's very rewarding to see. But the problem is, the critters take half of every plant. They're hard to sell. We haven't trained the critters yet which ones are theirs...
Mazda will be bringing hundreds of American workers, most of them supervisors, to Hofu in preparation for next September's opening of its first U.S. factory, an assembly plant in Flat Rock, Mich. Much like the fictional Assan Motors in the recent Michael Keaton movie Gung Ho, Mazda bought a closed-down factory from Ford, which owns 25% of the Japanese company, and is building a new $450 million facility on the site. It is Mazda's largest single investment ever, and the Japanese are sparing no effort to ensure the factory's success...