Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Federal regulators recalled more than a half-million toys Wednesday because of lead paint — including 200,000 Thomas and Friends Wooden Railway Toys from RCA Corp., the company that began the wave of lead scares with a June recall of 1.5 million Read more

Wharton - Mattel CEO Robert Eckert apologized on September 12 for lead paint found in millions of the company’s toys. TD Ameritrade CEO Joe Moglia apologized on September 14 for a database breach. Apple CEO Steve Jobs apologized on September 6 for cutting the Read more

Detroit News - Associated Press WASHINGTON — Toys and children’s necklaces made in China have been recalled, including five more items from the popular Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line, because they contain dangerous levels of lead. RC2 Corp.’s Read more

OpEdNews.com - And we have gladly become their puppets. How can you compete with decades of accumulated advertising prowess, mass media, and the advent of multi corporation marketing schemes? That is how they would have you think. Every one of us in the age of Read more

Egypt Today - And his travels have yielded other puppets such as the Had El-Zaaf (Palm Sunday) and khayal el-ma ta (scarecrow) dolls. In June 2006, Bahgat put together the first-ever Dolls Festival in Egypt, in an attempt to revive the dying art. The week Read more

Bay Weekly - For the kids, the fun is in the slapstick physicality and the visual antics, the sight gags created by this enthusiastic cast of five singing nuns, four kids, one priest and a half-dozen or so hand puppets. What they re offering here is a Christmas Read more