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...rules on toys will not be ready for the 2007 Christmas shopping season. Most toymakers have just a few weeks left before their holiday orders are shipped. So instead, the TIA is sending its members a detailed list of precautions to make sure their holiday toys are safe. Near the top is strict oversight of every contractor and subcontractor that touches toys at any point on the path from factory to shelf. That's what tripped up Mattel, which traced its problems with lead paint to subcontractors who used unapproved lead-based paint. To plug that quality-control gap, Mattel...
...comforts of middle age - a stage that the editor of TIME and I have both reached - is that you can start making demands on young people, safe in the knowledge that they won't apply to you. Having safely escaped the Vietnam era draft ourselves, we are overcome by the feeling that the next generation should not be so lucky. Many of these young folks are volunteering for socially beneficial work, and that's good. But it's not good enough. "Volunteerism" is so wonderful that every young person should have...
...Parisians and other French holiday makers who played the safe card by opting for the sunny Riviera were not disappointed, however. Vacationers in Nice, Saint-Tropez, Marseille and other Mediterranean coastal spots were treated to the heat and sun usually associated with summer. The downside of this, returnees from the Côte d'Azur still bitterly complain, was that the crowds were horrendous this year. You really can't please all the people all the time...
...exposé on New Orleans was one of the most naive I have ever read. To think this city will rise again because of the "resilience of its people" is a fairy tale. To believe this city can be made safe in the face of warming global temperatures, powerful storms and rising sea levels is completely ridiculous. There's an old saying: A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money. The same could be said of New Orleans. The main lesson of Katrina is that you can't fool Mother Nature. Bruce Gary, Rhinelander...
Within three weeks, the police vans disappeared from the streets, and women once again pushed back their veils, albeit with apprehension. To be on the safe side, I dressed conservatively for an appointment at a university in central Tehran. But at the gate a guard told me my manteau, a sort of Islamic overcoat, had "too few buttons," and he refused me admittance. "You look appalling," he said. A fellow guard rebuked him for addressing a "sister" so disrespectfully. The professor I was meeting, a reformer and onetime official, phoned to intervene, but the guards refused to budge. "Sorry, Doctor...