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...ugly Americans. They are doing so because in a globalized world, the country where a company has headquarters matters much less than where it does business. If one person understands that truth, it's Jack Welch. Why, TIME asked Welch, should a European be able to shape a merger between two American companies? "That's the law," replied Welch. "That really is just the way the world works." We'd all better get used...
Consumers can help shape that market by voting with their wallets. In the meantime, activists are launching a nationwide campaign to encourage testing of playground equipment for arsenic. Next week the Consumer Product Safety Commission will begin a new study to assess the arsenic risk kids face in playgrounds, and the EPA plans similar investigations in the fall. The EPA is also reviewing more than 300 pesticides (including the arsenic in CCA) to decide whether it will continue to approve their use. With the current flap over CCA, there is a fair chance arsenic won't make...
...paintings like Thiebaud's Pies, Pies, Pies, 1961. Each of the soft wedges (and how beautifully the squidginess of the oil paint consorts with what it is imitating, the squishiness of the lemon meringue and chocolate!) is very much its own thing. But there are differences of color and shape that save the serried ranks of piedom from monotony, and you are drawn into the small but clear discriminations that make an interesting painting. You end up thanking Thiebaud, in absentia, for reminding you how various and plural the world really...
Those are some mighty big ifs, of course. After all, the man was on the verge of dying before last week's operation--and still could die at any moment. His liver and kidneys are in pretty bad shape. He could suffer any number of surgical complications, from internal bleeding to infection to strokes...
...noted that the machinery in the plant that produces electricity is currently in very poor shape and that the University would have no interest in using the plant to produce electricity...