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...mosquitoes, which can carry disease, or DEET-based insect repellents, which can be toxic to children. Capitalizing on the growing interest in DEET-free alternatives, Biorganic Safety Brands has developed a line of ShooBug Repellents that it claims are safe for use around kids and pets. Using extracts of tree and plant oils--most notably cloves--the new products block a neurotransmitter receptor in bugs that doesn't exist in humans...
...only viable way to keep the company's beachhead in the U.S. Bridgestone has an established, albeit smaller, place in the North American market as a high-end, premium tire brand, and most consumers don't seem to think of it as falling from the same rubber tree. "Probably the best thing Bridgestone can do with the Firestone name is put it under a rock and forget about it," says Art Spinella, who runs automotive-market researcher...
...help motivate the youthful crowd, hip hop artists Mr. Lif, Akrobatik and Breez Evahflowin, and local favorites from WBCN-Boston including Darkbuster, Tree, Scissorfight and Jiggle performed on a stage...
...Sydneysiders take for granted an intimacy with nature that would astonish most city residents worldwide. Inner-city suburbs echo to the screech of sulfur-crested cockatoos and the laughter of sturdy kookaburras; brilliant rainbow lorikeets hang upside down in fruit trees squabbling over berries. As night falls, mighty Port Jackson fig trees discharge clouds of flying foxes, while possums patrol urban gardens and clatter across the rooftops. Everywhere, in parks, gardens, at the water's edge, the luxuriant subtropical vegetation-mosses and ferns, cabbage palms, ash and she-oak, ancient angophora forests and a hundred species of gum tree-reminds...
Wisps of smoke emanate from an ever-burning fire. The Tent Embassy's main inspiration, Isabell Coe, a slight, gray-haired 50-something woman more commonly known as Auntie Isabell, calls it "the fire for peace and justice." Encircling the fire are huge tree trunks. This circle is the nerve center of the Tent Embassy. People come and go asking Mrs. Coe's advice about various subjects...