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Business Day
U.S. Blacklists Alibaba Unit Over Counterfeit Sales
The United States Trade Representative’s move was made against Alibaba’s Taobao marketplace over sales of fake and pirated goods.The action amounts to name calling.
"Being blacklisted does not carry any penalties, but it is a blow to Alibaba, which has been working to shed perceptions that its websites are riddled with fakes. The company is trying to gain more international customers."
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N.Y. / Region
Reward Is Doubled as Authorities Seek Leads in July Blast in Central Park
More than five months after a mysterious substance exploded in Central Park and blew off the lower part of 19-year-old man’s left leg, many questions about the blast persist.The investigators should have identified the explosive.
there is no investigators statement in the report.
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World
After 72 Die, Putin Tightens Limits on Consumer Products High in Alcohol
The crackdown by the Russian president came after the victims died from drinking a liquid labeled bath lotion and consumed as a cheap substitute for alcohol.Raise the price of methanol above the price of ethanol.
Methanol is always poisonous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity
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Your Money
Buy an Extended Warranty? Generally, There’s No Need
The post-sale plans are often difficult to use, experts say, and your credit card company may already extend the manufacturer’s warranty.It is usually enough that a cheap warranty exists.
If failure were likely the warranty would cost much more.
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Business Day
For Online Dating
Sites, a Bumpy Road to Love
Spark Networks, which owns JDate, ChristianMingle and other niche sites, has been jolted by executive turnover and upheaval in the industry.Being social seems to work best.
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Real Estate
When a Neighbor Brings Home a Pit Bull
In a dog-friendly co-op, can the board evict a breed with a bad reputation?The Pit Bull is only another dog.
If it behaves itself there is nothing the board should do.
I am fond of the breed.
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Opinion
In Deportations, an Economic Toll and a Human One
A pediatrician and a justice advocate offer their perspectives.How are people without income to be housed?
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Business Day
Ikea Reaches $50 Million Settlement Over Deadly Furniture Accidents
The families of three toddler sued the company after their children were crushed to death by Ikea dressers or chests.""These were three very preventable deaths that never needed to occur if Ikea had simply made dressers that met the voluntary national standard,” Alan M. Feldman, a partner with Feldman Shepherd, the law firm in Philadelphia that represents the families, said in a phone interview on Thursday. He was referring to the safety protocols set out by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission."
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World
Despite Fatal Blast, Mexicans Clamor to Rebuild Fireworks Market
As families congregated in hospitals to visit loved ones or look for the missing, there was scarcely a word of criticism for the failings in accountability that led to the fire.
"In
her 30 years of selling handcrafted fireworks, Ms. Centeno has come to
accept the risk as the cost of doing business. To put her two children
through college and scratch out a decent life, she acknowledges the
danger with a certain air of fatalism, even the loss of life. What
neither she nor her fellow vendors can abide is a loss of livelihood.
“It
is not that I want to sell fireworks, it is the fact it is our only
source of employment in this town,” she said, wiping the tears from her
eyes."Treat the market as the arsenal it is.
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U.S.
Florida Woman Charged in Death of Infant in ‘Co-Sleeping’ Case
Erin Piche-Pitts was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child after she fell asleep while bottle feeding her infant son and he died.Florida is as crazy as Texas.
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