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...with any product-liability case, all parties involved are playing the blame game. Last weekend trial lawyers leaked an internal Ford document from 1989 that shows the company may have recommended inflating the Firestone tires to less than the maximum level to decrease the possibility of a rollover, even though underinflated tires pose a greater threat of tread separation. Ford says the SUVs' design isn't the issue. None of the similar Goodyear tires used on its SUVs have had that problem. Senator John McCain will try to resolve some of these issues in Commerce Committee hearings next week...
Doctors fix at least some of the blame for the growing problem on those other great phenomena of the 1990s: the infatuation with the Internet and the proliferation of cable-TV channels. An increasingly wired country is also becoming an increasingly sedentary one, with Web-surfing kids leading the way. The answer, as always, is to shut down the computer, turn off the TV and try regular exercise and eating smart. The lecture may be the same as it's always been, but the stakes are becoming higher than ever...
...Many tire experts think that long after the blame game has cooled down, Ford and Firestone will discover there was no single defect but a combination of factors that may have led to the failures. "You've got a vehicle with marginal stability and a tire that is marginal," says Dick Baumgardner, a former Firestone engineer who now examines tire accidents for legal cases. "Put them together, and you've got a disaster." Pull them apart, and in addition to the human toll, you've got all the makings of a nasty corporate pileup...
Jessica: I don't think Gore is nagging; he's strategically highlighting a strength. Gore's much-trumpeted readiness to debate may be annoying to Bush, but it's a reality the governor is going to have to deal with. And I don't blame him for skirting the issue for as long as possible - if I were Bush, I'd be terrified to face Gore as well. Bush does not do well when he's pushed off-script, and Gore's people are obviously going to focus their attentions on leading their opponent down the slippery slope of malapropism...
...raised eyebrows in the U.S. State Department. Monday, as Chinese book-binding workers prepared to send glossy volumes of "The Clinton Years: The Photographs of Robert McNeely" to American distributors, customs officials stopped the shipment and confiscated the books. It appears that one picture in particular may be to blame: A photo of President Clinton exchanging a handshake with the Dalai Lama reportedly piqued Chinese officials? interest (it's on page 84, for those of you lucky enough to see one of the 8,000 copies that apparently slipped under the censors? radar...