Word: playground
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...York, Washington and Indiana filed a class action against the industry and some retailers, hoping to force them to pay for sealing existing structures built with CCA and cleaning up contaminated sites. Such legal sword rattling may be having an effect. Last week PlayNation, a Georgia-based maker of playground equipment, announced that it will immediately switch to nonarsenic-based preservatives. According to several sources, the industry as a whole could make such a change at a cost of just $40,000 per treatment plant. Pine won't speculate on whether the industry will consider making the switch, though...
...cage, staring blankly out, her huge eyes numb with fear, clutching herself tightly and rocking back and forth ceaselessly. But with luck and good mothering, she too will be transformed within weeks or months into one of the scampering, mischievous brats swinging effortlessly through the air in the playground next door...
...much of that is a result of the trial? It's hard to say. But Microsoft was never an intentional ogre; it was just a company that grew very big, very fast, very aggressively and never had any adults around in the playground to bring it down to size. Jackson correctly surmised what was necessary: someone needed to beat Microsoft's head against a brick wall repeatedly and remind it of the existence of the rule of law. He took on the role, and the official branding of bias that comes with it. The payoff will take a little longer...
...society. In 1997 a 14-year-old Kobe teenager killed and beheaded an 11-year-old playmate. A year later, four people died after eating arsenic-laced curry at a village festival. In December 1999, a teenage assailant knifed and killed a seven-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper-delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. In December a 17-year-old boy went berserk in Tokyo's Shibuya district, injuring eight strangers with a baseball...
...society. In 1997 a 14-year-old Kobe teenager killed and beheaded an 11-year-old playmate. A year later four people died after eating arsenic-laced curry at a village festival. In December 1999 a teenage assailant knifed to death a 7-year-old boy on a school playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. Last December a 17-year-old boy went berserk in Tokyo's Shibuya district, assaulting seven strangers with a baseball bat. "These children are at their cutest, sweetest age," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...