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Risch defeated four rivals to fill the seat vacated by Senator Larry Craig, who retired after getting ensnarled in a sex scandal. Risch, a Republican and former lieutenant governor, ran on a tax-cut platform but had to defend himself against charges that he had ducked the Vietnam draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blue Tide | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...fire-breathing right-wing targets: wacky Bill Sali of Idaho, who protested a minimum-wage hike by introducing a bill to repeal the law of gravity; Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado, who once declared gay marriage the greatest threat to America; Tom Feeney of Florida, an escapee from the Abramoff scandal; and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, who ran ads calling her Christian opponent "godless." They also defeated some impressive Republicans who could have helped lead the party out of the wilderness, like moderate Congressman Christopher Shays of Connecticut, conservative Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire and pragmatic Charlotte mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Republicans, It Could Have Been Worse | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...While some quick action was taken after last year's pet food scandals, the response was narrowly focused on the exposed cases. The country's top watchdog revoked the business licenses for two companies that produced adulterated wheat gluten blamed for the death of thousands of pets in North America and another that shipped the diethylene glycol used in cough medicine that killed more than 100 Panamanians."While China's State Council announced new rules for stricter controls on food producers and tougher punishments for violators, poor oversight allowed producers to adulterate dairy products and animal feed with melamine until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Melamine Woes Likely to Get Worse | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...there is one upside to the latest product scandals, says Yang, it's that companies learn the risk of selling harmful products. Not only could their businesses be destroyed, but they can face harsh criminal punishments. "This takes more time. There are still a lot of problems, but grudgingly progress is being made as different stakeholders are learning the hard way." If those lessons don't sink in, then expect a Chinese Product Safety Scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Melamine Woes Likely to Get Worse | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...with $800,000 in cash from Venezuela into Argentina last year but was allowed to return to his Miami home by the Argentine authorities, where - the court found - undercover emissaries from Venezuela and Argentina, Duran among them, had tried to threaten and bribe Wilson to hush up a political scandal that threatened the leaders of both countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Woes for Argentina's 'New Evita' | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

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