| U.S. Group Accuses Chinese Toy Factories of Labor Abuses A workers’ rights group in the United States released a report Tuesday detailing what it called brutal conditions and illegal practices in Chinese toy factories.... nytimes.com |
Lego Posts Higher Sales (AP via Yahoo! Asia News) Lego Group reported 5 percent revenue growth in the first half of the year due to higher sales of classic products like its City, Technic and Star Wars lines. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Recent recalls raise concerns about holiday buying (The Record) Addi Belle Rudman of Ramsey celebrated her first birthday a week ago. Among the gifts she received were a clock, a beanbag chair and other furniture for her playroom and bedroom; books; and gift certificates for clothing. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Q&A with Meredith Garniss (Boston Globe) WANDER DOWN AN alley in Davis Square and you'll discover what seems to be the entrance to another world. Is this a wee pub, transported from Ireland? Or a giant British phone booth? us.rd.yahoo.com |
Documentary focuses on lawyer/provocateur Jacques Vergès (Philadelphia Daily News) You know you're in for something when the first two people in a movie are Cambodian mass-murderer Pol Pot and his lawyer. But Jacques Vergès had defended a lot of people - from Algerian resistance fighters to Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie - and it's his Zelig-like journey through the politics of the postwar 20th century that is the contentious subject of Barbet Schroeder's unwieldy, ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
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