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...Enforcement, however, was lax. And the ordinance did not take into account several large "psychic fairs," run by Salemites but often staffed by out-of-towners, that breezed in yearly to take advantage of high season. These events infuriated several of the store owners. Says Barbara Szafranski, owner of the shop Angelica of Angels, "Why should [a fair owner] come in and make fifty grand in one flush when we spend all year trying to get close to that...
...everyone is happy about the revision, and passions run high. Laurie Cabot, whom then Governor Michael Dukakis once named the "official witch of Salem," has reportedly made common cause with some of the store owners in complaining that the new rules will increase the quantity and decrease the quality of psychics. In the period between the last public meeting about the statute and its passage, the Salem News reported that someone had left a raccoon skull and intestines in front of two of the stores, a gesture many involved in the controversy seem to think was part of an attempt...
...longer expected to find any more survivors. "We can't take much more of this," says Delia Alvarez, who has just bolted out of a plastic chair as another tremor - there have been more than 500 aftershocks - shakes the rubble of what used to be her house and convenience store...
...health and safety agency, says the Consumer Federation of America. Only 15 trained inspectors regularly monitor goods at U.S. ports, where hundreds of millions of toys - about three quarters from China - come in yearly. Fewer than 100 inspectors have to cover the rest of the country, scouring store shelves for safety problems among the 15,000 products regulated by CPSC...
...since 1996. Displaying the handmade works of art, which are available at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City and mostly take the form of animals but also the odd musical instrument, has become a rite of passage of sorts for Paris' chicest shops: the sculptures have appeared in the store windows of Christian Lacroix, Chopard, Yves Saint Laurent and Le Bon March?...