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Mattel Inc. issued recall for about 9 million Chinese-made toys.
WASHINGTON Toy-making giant Mattel Inc. issued recalls Tuesday for about 9 million Chinese-made toys that contain magnets children can swallow or which could have lead paint. The recall includes 7.3 million play sets, including Polly Pocket dolls and Batman action figures, and 253,000 die cast cars that contain lead paint. Nancy A. Nord, acting Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman, told a news conference no injuries had been reported with any of the products involved in the new recall.
The scope of these recalls is intentionally large to prevent any injuries from occurring, she told the news conference.
At least one U.S. child has died and 19 others have needed surgery since 2003 after swallowing magnets used in toys, the government said.
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The LDS Church is more in harmony with our culture and ways than any other church, says Cliff Chase, a West Valley City police officer and a member of the Mapusaga Ward, a Samoan-speaking congregation of the Mormon Church. In a sense, we were already Mormons. Chase, like other Mormons, believes the Islanders destiny was pre-ordained. According to traditional church teachings, Polynesians and American Indians are Lamanites, a tribe of Israel that was wicked; as punishment, God colored their skin dark and banished them to the wilderness, where they would stay until the Mormons saved them. Saved from the wilderness is not exactly how many Islanders would describe their arrival in Utah. Many of them were unprepared for the realities of urban and suburban life. I thought it would be a place for just Mormons, says Mike Brunt, who came to Salt Lake City from Western Samoa in 1981, and now runs a Boys and Girls Club recreation and education center on the citys West side.
Pride, family key for local
If you haven't met Angel Ball, you may have seen her brightly colored car driving around town. Vivid rainbow stripes adorn the car, painted by friend Teresa Ervin. Lettering spells out the phrases "Don't be jealous," and "Pride ride." The license plate contains a shortened version of the name "Rainbow Brite," a nickname Ball adopted after a man used the words to make fun of her. .
More toys recalled by Mattel; see complete list
Mattel Inc. issued recall for about 9 million Chinese-made toys.
WASHINGTON Toy-making giant Mattel Inc. issued recalls Tuesday for about 9 million Chinese-made toys that contain magnets children can swallow or which could have lead paint. The recall includes 7.3 million play sets, including Polly Pocket dolls and Batman action figures, and 253,000 die cast cars that contain lead paint. Nancy A. Nord, acting Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman, told a news conference no injuries had been reported with any of the products involved in the new recall.
The scope of these recalls is intentionally large to prevent any injuries from occurring, she told the news conference.
At least one U.S. child has died and 19 others have needed surgery since 2003 after swallowing magnets used in toys, the government said.
Weld County Fair results, open class and scouts
Class 5: Patch Collection 1. Matthew Faryna, Pack 41 Cub Scouts, Nunn,
Blue.
Class 55: Woodworking-1 1. Matthew Faryna, Pack 41 Cub Scouts, Nunn, Blue.
Overall Champion Cub Scout Matthew Faryna, Pack 41 Cub Scouts, Nunn.
Overall Reserve Champion Cub Scout Matthew Faryna, Pack 41 Cub Scouts,
Nunn.
BOY SCOUTS
Class 53: Pinewood Derby Car - 1 1. Zach Oelschlager, Boy Scouts, Windsor,
Blue.
Class 55: Woodworking-1 1. Zach Oelschlager, Boy Scouts, Windsor, Blue.
Overall Champion Boy Scout Zach Oelschlager, Boy Scouts, Windsor.
Overall Reserve Champion Boy Scout Zach Oelschlager, Boy Scouts, Windsor.
BROWNIE OR JUNIOR GIRL SCOUTS
Class 15: Structure twigs, toothpick craft 2. Diandra Brooks, Girl Scouts,
Greeley, Red.
Smell of floating corpses adds to S.Asia flood woes
Two boys are seen drying clothes on the rooftop of their flooded home at Mohammadpur in the capital Dhaka August 21, 2007. Residents in eastern India complained on Wednesday about the smell of corpses floating in flood waters as the toll from widespread monsoon flooding in South Asia rose by 68 overnight. (REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman) .
I'm with Jordan on breastfeeding
It is, I am sorry to say, all too rarely that I have a sense of fellow feeling with the beautiful blonde celebrity, Jordan, but yesterday was an exception. That was when she got it in the neck from the National Childbirth Trust for appearing in OK! magazine, unashamedly bottle-feeding her baby, Princess Tiaamii. In fact not only was she photographed with the child contentedly sucking from his bottle, she declared that she throws the bottles away afterwards. "It’s brilliant," she says. "I have 20 crates of teats and bottles. I don’t have to sterilise or heat anything, you literally take the teat out, screw it on, and throw it away. I don’t care what people say; you don’t have to breast-feed. I don’t want a baby drinking from me." It was at this point that I felt something like awe for the woman.
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