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...Dragging in all the friends he could find, Baron managed just in time to fill the order by hand. He lost money, but market research showed that the straws boosted Denny's milk sales by more than 50 per cent. "It meant the product had a good chance internationally," Baron says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Sip Enterprise | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...tainted baby milk to a seemingly unending stream of foods, drugs, pet foods and toys that over the past two years have killed or injured thousands worldwide. These products all have three words in common: MADE IN CHINA. A large state-owned Chinese company, Sanlu Group, based in Hebei province in central China, as well as several smaller companies, apparently diluted milk products with an additive called melamine. Industrial-grade melamine is a masking agent used to hide the dilution of protein, in this case in milk products, including an infant formula widely popular in China. Nearly 53,000 small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heparin's Deadly Side Effects | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Changzhou says it relies on two companies--its joint-venture partner, Changzhou Techpool, as well as a Hangzhou-based firm, Ruihua Biomedical Products Co.--to buy its crude heparin. Strunce has described them as meticulous in ensuring the quality of the crude heparin they buy for SPL. But several small suppliers told TIME they have sold directly to SPL or have been approached by the company, looking for product. And when FDA inspectors showed up in Hangzhou this year, after reports of a spike in deaths and illness, Ruihua Biomedical stiff-armed the investigators. It refused to let them inspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heparin's Deadly Side Effects | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.”Upon visiting artist-curator Tim Barber’s online art gallery tinyvices.com, a mixed-media motley of art and artistically-inclined product, one might feel inclined to agree with Sontag. Perhaps because Barber himself is a gifted photographer, the site is photo-heavy and characterized by the now-standard downtown blend of the High and the Low. Life’s outtakes are elevated to the level of art, and art, with greater intention, is made...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Multi-Media Art Online at Tinyvices.com | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Tree Foot Powder and Spray For intense reekage (of my Adidas gym shoes, for instance, which have been properly funktified after many a sockless summer) opt for a product with tea tree oil, a natural antiseptic. Thursday Plantation - which is based in Australia, home to the Melaleuca plant from which tea tree oil is derived - has a collection of antifungal products, including a deodorizing, talc-free foot powder, as well as a spray. Powders are messy but necessary for serious offenses; the spray is a better alternative for less heinous stink, whether it's from shoes or feet. The products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Treatments for Road-Weary Peds | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

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