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BY KATE REW
AMERICAN bra manufacturers are responding to growing demand from larger women who are no longer content to wear cumbersome, corset-like structures but would prefer flimsier, sexier bras which are both comfortable and flatter their fuller figures. For a long time this market, which stands at around 40 per cent of intimate wear and is growing all the time, has been overlooked, according to Joyce Baran, Vice President of Merchandising and Design, Liz Claiborne Intimates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has tightened proposed restrictions on the use of pentaBDE, (pentabromodiphenyl ether), because of concerns that the flame retardant used to make fire-proof furniture and upholstery harms human health and the environment and has been found in increasing quantities in breast milk.…

BY KATE REW
AMERICAN bra manufacturers are responding to growing demand from larger women who are no longer content to wear cumbersome, corset-like structures but would prefer flimsier, sexier bras which are both comfortable and flatter their fuller figures. For a long time this market, which stands at around 40 per cent of intimate wear and is growing all the time, has been overlooked, according to Joyce Baran, Vice President of Merchandising and Design, Liz Claiborne Intimates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEP’s are sticking to their guns in a political battle with European Union ministers over whether there should be EU legislation laying down noise limits or particular forms of transport operations across the continent. The parliament’s environment committee is resisting a decision by the European Union Council of Ministers to reject amendments that would have strengthened a planned noise directive, making it include commitments to set specific and binding EU noise limits for road vehicles, trains, rail tracks and aircraft.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REGULATIONS governing the proposed new Coal and Steel Research Fund, that is to replace the outgoing European Coal and Steel Community next year, should allow for its budget to be reviewed when the EU admits new members from eastern Europe, the European Parliament’s budget committee has claimed.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A POTENTIALLY vast new market for international insurers has been opened up in China following agreement by that country on the terms of its accession to the World Trade Organisation this week. “It will mean that this market, which accounts for more than a sixth of the world’s population and is set to be one of the largest economies in the world, will basically become open for insurers from other countries to set up branches and joint ventures on a steadily growing scale,” says John Cooke, head of international relations at the Association of British Insurers, in the key London insurance market.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
LIGHT drinking may be healthier than not drinking or heavy drinking, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, adding yet another angle to the on-going debate of health risks or benefits associated with alcohol consumption.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR European Union research study has concluded that the ‘true’ price of using renewable energy is actually much more competitive than usually assumed, when the costs of cleaning up the resulting pollution of fossil fuel power generation and dealing with the resulting health problems are taken into account.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced it will give Lebanon a US$3.4 million grant to finance a new initiative aimed at boosting renewable energy generation, as well as increasing energy efficiency and environmental protection in this eastern Mediterranean country.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MOST governments are keenly concerned about the quality of food their people eat, and quite rightly so. They pass laws to ensure food purity and safety and that’s all very commendable – but it can be overdone.

Regulations can, sometimes deliberately, be drawn up so tightly that they effectively bar the sale of food produced in other countries, thus constituting an impediment to free trade.…