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According to a 2006 report by the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, 89% of the 10,000 chemicals used in nail-care products have not been safety tested by an independent agency. Since 2001, the Environmental Working Group, a public health watchdog, has been studying many of those same ingredients, with disturbing results. The group has noted that one common brand of nail glue contains ingredients linked to cancer and reproductive defects, a significant finding given that more than half of Asian immigrant women working in nail salons are of child-bearing age. Hannah Lee, executive editor...
...good. "If you're going to work with children in an orphanage, [how will they] understand what you're trying to do when you don't speak their language and you don't stay long enough to form a relationship?" asks Tricia Barnett, director of Tourism Concern, an industry watchdog based in the U.K. "What does it mean to the child...
Some feminists charge that burqas in any form are offensive to women. "Clearly you're not considered a full human being if you're mandated to cover yourself head to toe in this tent," says Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of Equality Now, the international women's-rights watchdog. Sabet responds that Muslim men too have a dress code: the Koran forbids them to wear saffron or silk or expose skin from navel to knee. But Imam Mohamed Magid, who heads a moderate mosque in Sterling, Va., calls debate over Islamic clothing misdirected. "I wish there was more talk about...
...House's top watchdog, this veteran Congressman from Hollywood has been tackling everything from contractor fraud to federal cronyism. Henry Waxman will now take your questions...
...there are promising signs, including the long-delayed appointment of a city inspector general to act as a watchdog over public agencies, and ongoing investigations into corruption by past officials - an effort that Nagin, to his credit, spearheaded in his first term. New population statistics show that the city has regained more than half of its pre-Katrina population. Citizen-led reforms have consolidated the city's patchwork and inefficient network of property assessors and replaced the politician-dominated levee oversight system with a centralized office staffed largely by engineers and scientists. Enrollment at Tulane and Loyola University, New Orleans...