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Recall takes Barbie, 'Cars' and other toys off shelves

Mattel items have lead paint, magnets; some out since '03
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Which will teach them not to move production to China in order to cut costs and for cheap labour. shame on you
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Nokia cellphone batteries recalled


Is your Nokia cellphone battery a BL-5C? You had better check it out, as cellphone giant Nokia has embarked on a global recall of 46-million phone batteries that are at risk of overheating.

South Africans are being warned to check if their batteries fall into the faulty category and whether they qualify for a free replacement.

Internationally, some 100 incidents have been reported, but Nokia SA said yesterday they had not received a single complaint.

"It's a global issue and we are warning everyone to check their phone batteries," said Nokia spokesperson Tania Steenkamp.

Nokia owners are urged to call 0861-16654 or visit This website
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Dead scattered in the streets of quake-ravaged Peru

ICA, Peru (CNN) -- Residents of the Peruvian city of Ica said the ground shook again early Friday as they slept outside, their homes destroyed by Wednesday's 8.0-magnitude earthquake.
A quarter of the buildings in the city of 120,000, were destroyed, The Associated Press reported, as the temblor killed at least 400 people and left 1,500 more injured across the South American nation. sad
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8.0, now that's really enormous. shock
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HUNTINGTON, Utah - The desperate underground drive to reach six trapped miners will be suspended indefinitely after a catastrophic cave-in killed three rescuers inside a mountainside mine, a federal official said Friday.


Underground search for miners suspended
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Yes those are all sad sad news

And in Peru this continues

Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days
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I might start another thread only for disasters
181 Chinese Miners Trapped by Flooding
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. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller -- designer, architect, engineer, and mathematician. A charismatic genius, Fuller was a global thinker and futurist before we knew we needed global thinking and future vision. To educator and philosopher Marshall McLuhan, Fuller was "the Leonardo da Vinci of our time." Time called him "the first poet of technology," and the Nobel committee short-listed him for its Peace Prize. Fuller was the godfather of today's sustainability movement. As far back as the 1950s, well before modern "environmentalism," he identified a global crisis of planetary magnitude

This fascinating article further explores his unique contribution to humanity.
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