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Smart companies like the French retailer Carrefour reach back to the farmer in his field. "We select the best suppliers and train them to our standards--which pesticides they can use, how much to use and so on," says Nadege Claudel, Carrefour's quality and food-safety manager for China. For produce sold under its in-house brand, Carrefour has replicated its European tracking system, which labels every vegetable with a number that follows it from harvest to shelf--and adds 20% to the price...
Beyond the risks of addiction, however, officials warn that there are dangerous links between the drug business and funding for terrorism - an argument that U.S. authorities use to press European governments to crack down on drug networks. They point to the fact that the explosives used in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, which killed 191 people, were bought with hashish. "We are seeing increasing incidents of the use of drug barter for munitions in terror attacks," U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Karen Tandy told international law-enforcement officials at a meeting in Madrid...
Chinese products fell under fire again with the recall of more than 1.5 million Thomas & Friends train sets--adding to a long list of perilous exports including toothpaste and pet food. The city of Dongguan may be thriving as the world's toy capital, but at what cost...
Porto has a brown belt in jiu-jitsu and every day trains in jiu-jitsu, wrestling and boxing with her coach Pedro Iglesias, a black belt jiu-jitsu master with a gothic tattoo on his forearm that reads "Jesus." "There are no other women to train with here, so I use men and it's pretty intense and rigorous," says Porto, who despite her fierce reputation in the ring is well-spoken and has a gentle manner, especially with her dog, an uncharacteristically calm pit bull named Hannah. Training takes place in the small community center in Jua, her gritty...
...exciting year,” Litvak said. “We’re going to have a full team and we have a new coach. It’s always a nice feeling to have a coach who wants to be on the court, who wants to train and make things better. Overall, it’s just going to be an exciting fall to come back to.” —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...