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...could end that age-old bandage conundrum: Do you peel it slowly from your skin or rip it off all at once? Wound-care companies now offer a new generation of pain-free personal first-aid gear, replacing hair-pulling plastic strips with liquid bandages; breathable, waterproof gel sheaths; and gauze pads that stem blood loss quickly...
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...have not become part of the dress code at the European Commission. Not yet, anyhow. But if a current wave of vitriol aimed at the unelected 20,000-person-strong bureaucracy by the 15 European Union member states' politicians and citizens gets any more intense, some kind of protective gear might be necessary. Indeed, no matter which direction you look from the 16-story Commission headquarters in Brussels, the bullets are flying fast and furious. Whether from across the Rhine River in Germany, from over the Seine and Paris, across the English Channel from Britain or even from the distance...
...A380's emergency power unit will be supplied by Hamilton Sundstrand, based in Windsor Locks, Conn. The 44-ft. emergency slides and the 18-ft.-high landing gear will be made by Goodrich, based in Charlotte, N.C. Triumph Group, based in Wayne, Pa., will produce the cargo-door actuation system. A division of Parker Aerospace based in Smithtown, N.Y., is providing fuel measurement and management systems...
...like Jordan, Li is discovering that knee ligaments and marketing formulas don't last forever. Li is uncharacteristically absent from his company's latest mainland advertising campaign, a $2.4 million TV blitz that coincides with World Cup broadcasts. The ads, featuring no-name characters wearing Li Ning Sports gear, are part of a corporate image overhaul to get younger, more affluent Chinese to wear the brand. Li, now 39, isn't recognizable to a hipper generation that follows NBA basketball and the English Premier League on TV. Fans "used to come by the thousands when I opened outlets," Li says...