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...China Tainted Baby-Food Shock In a widening scandal, at least three babies have died and more than 6,200 have become sick after consuming milk contaminated with the nonfood substance melamine. Beijing is investigating at least 22 companies that packaged tainted milk and yogurt sold in mainland China and Hong Kong. Melamine, a plastic compound that shows up as protein in some food tests, has been used by certain manufacturers in China to make their products appear more nutritious. In 2007, thousands of pets in the U.S. died after eating pet food contaminated with Chinese melamine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), was an 18th century scandal magnet for having both a swine and a swain--an icy, cheating husband (Ralph Fiennes) and a Whig politician lover (Dominic Cooper). This middling drama is less a history lesson than a tour of sumptuous real estate. The loveliest acreage is Knightley's alabaster back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...leadership battle inside the centrist Kadima Party erupted when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was pressured into resigning by his party after police said he faced a possible indictment for alleged fraud and bribery. Even before the corruption scandal broke, Olmert's standing in the polls was abysmally low; blamed for a disastrous military campaign in Lebanon in 2006, his approval rating sank to 3% in the war's aftermath and remained in the single digits. At an exhibition hall in Tel Aviv rented by Kadima on election night to handle the media and party faithful - and where press outnumbered supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Livni Wins Party Vote to Succeed Olmert in Israel | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...already been hacked, so to speak, by federal authorities who are investigating her role in the firing of Walt Monegan, Alaska's public safety commissioner. Critics charge that Palin fired Monegan for refusing to dismiss her former brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper. (The scandal has already earned a -gate suffix.) After Tuesday's hacks were made public, both private accounts were deleted - an act that could technically constitute destruction of evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Palin's E-Mail Hacked | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...first stock exchange was established in Shanghai, and much of the foreign direct investment that flows into China comes through here. Fashion houses, banks and law firms gravitate first to Shanghai, not Beijing. Still, the last couple of years have not been kind to the city. A cancerous corruption scandal, uncovered by the overlords in Beijing, claimed Shanghai's Communist Party boss and a substantial portion of the city's ruling elite. Shanghai's benchmark stock index has plunged to its lowest point since late 2006, and even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shanghai: After Beijing Games, Back in the Spotlight | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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