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...Wednesday Brad was teeing it up in the weekly pro-am event, then, on Thursday, beginning his title defense. -Gosh, the golf was nothing like London Links. But it?s easier to go in this direction-Scottish links-style golf back to our parkland game-rather than switch from our game to theirs. I played well from the beginning, everything was on, and the wrist, which had still been hurting early in the season, felt okay." By Sunday Faxon had the lead, and he still held it-but barely- at the 18th tee, when he sent his tee shot...
...displays. At the same time, the Consumer Product Safety Commission agreed to ask for public comments on petitions that could lead to an outright ban of CCA. In Florida, dozens of playgrounds have been shut down, and Governor Jeb Bush has ordered a state-run wood-treatment plant to switch to another preservative. While adults wrestle with the politics of the problem, however, it's kids who may be paying the ultimate price...
...action against the industry and some retailers, hoping to force them to pay for sealing existing structures built with CCA and cleaning up contaminated sites. Such legal sword rattling may be having an effect. Last week PlayNation, a Georgia-based maker of playground equipment, announced that it will immediately switch to nonarsenic-based preservatives. According to several sources, the industry as a whole could make such a change at a cost of just $40,000 per treatment plant. Pine won't speculate on whether the industry will consider making the switch, though he concedes that the final decision "will depend...
...them does. Last May, Nevada's Democratic Senator Harry Reid succeeded in persuading Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords to bolt the Republican Party. Jeffords' switch gave Democrats control of the Senate--and promoted Reid from minority to majority whip, a perch he is currently trying to use to block the Bush Administration from putting the nuclear dump in his state. "This is wrong what they're trying to do," insists Reid. Last May, majority leader Tom Daschle flew to Las Vegas to speak at a fund raiser for Reid. "As long as we're in the majority," Daschle vowed, "[the Yucca...
...packed into a gleaming clear plastic case 8 in. on a side--looked at first like another computing coup for chairman Steve Jobs, but it never quite caught on. It was too expensive (about $1,300) and too low powered, and users complained that its touch-sensitive power switch caused unintentional shutdowns. At least we still have the flower-power iMac...