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...home, particularly if the extra safety measures raise the price of Chinese imports? U.S.-made toys may still use imported parts, but manufacturers have more control over how they're put together and can test them more easily. "On the surface, there is reason to believe they're safer," says John Quelch, a professor at Harvard Business School. However, he notes, every big toymaker that does produce in China is going flat out to avoid the nightmare of a holiday recall. This Christmas could end up the safest...
...markedly better. The surge took place in a belt of outposts around the capital, where troops barricaded roads into the city, worked with local residents to flush out insurgents and spent millions creating safe zones where markets and normal life could return. Average Iraqis tell Time that Baghdad feels safer; sectarian violence in the capital has been reduced, Pentagon officials say, and many Baghdad residents want the surge to continue. That's in part what the operation's architects had in mind when they sketched it out last fall...
...Haber on "See You in Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan "It's Safer Underground" during last summer's Israeli air raids...
RECHARGEABLE Nearly 150 years ago, a French physicist designed a reusable battery using lead dipped in acid. Today, outlet-ready rechargeables are ubiquitous--and a lot safer...
...FALLOUT The Harriers stopped using flour for a while after 9/11. Paint may be a safer bet from...