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...IngenuiTea offers a tidy way to brew and serve loose-leaf tea. Rest the teapot on the rim of your mug, and filtered tea pours in through a valve. It's microwave safe--just don't nuke the leaves. $15 or $19; adagio.com...
...alleged Muslim militants, including three top leaders of the Abu Sayyaf group, were killed during the bloody suppression of a prison riot. But offstage developments are just as frightening. TIME has learned that Philippine security forces seized a cache of sophisticated bombs during a mid-February raid on a safe house that police say was maintained by Abu Sayyaf in Manila. Twelve bombs manufactured from C4 plastic explosive were recovered, expertly hidden in items such as toothpaste tubes and deodorant bottles. "We call them invisible bombs because they are very, very difficult to detect," says one senior government official familiar...
There's no need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only 30 IUs of vitamin E, and this has long been shown to be a safe amount. And 400 IUs may yet prove to be fine. For complicated statistical reasons, the heart- failure finding could easily be a fluke, the study's coordinating investigator readily admits...
That dream seems to have stalled, with some police departments already beginning to curb orders. The bad news keeps coming. Several class actions are in the works, and a recent Air Force study suggests that Tasers may not be 100% safe. Chicago, which already has 200 of them deployed, delayed plans to distribute 100 more in February after a 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest and a 54-year-old man died after being stunned. Both were unarmed. "This is a classic case of giving someone a technology, then seeing them use it inappropriately and excessively," says Benjamin Wolf...
...Taser unsafe? Rick Smith, the company's CEO, staunchly defended its technology in a press release issued the same day as the Amnesty International report, claiming that "while not risk-free," it was "safe and effective." (The company has not responded to TIME's repeated requests for interviews.) Matthew Tobias, a special-operations commander for the Chicago police, says the department stands behind Tasers and plans to keep using them. "Tasers reduce injuries to officers and citizens," says Tobias. Police in Cincinnati, Seattle and Madison, Wis., have also backed Tasers in written reports...