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Show PAGE 6 ta FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, BUSINESS EDITOR I Grace Leong 2007 gteongOheraldextrMom 344-291- 0 V A Local Industry Silver News & notes o'- THE DOUAR EXCHANGING ym 115.92 . $11,623 $0,077 .... . Canadian dollar Mexican peso . Restaurants S13557 $13536 $2.0029 I.- 0552 II.- 0753 $1.9917 13)621 113)679 I TucMOflruiUwi Grin opM at SICs Gateway Brazilian Grill, which opened its first Utah restaurant at the Shops at Riverwoods mall in ftrovo, will open a new location at the Gateway in Salt Lake City. restaurant at the Gateway win The new hire between. 80 and 100 workers. The first Utah restaurant, ' which serves grilled meats, poultry, seafood, and vegetables, opened in 20UUin ftwa The second restaurant opened in Albuquerque in 2001. ot Tim Johnson mcclatchy newspapers . NATIONAL BRIEFING Council, China's Cabinet, . i released statement saying - China's government would re- BEIJING Stung by a spate turn or destroy all improperly of safety recalls of ks prod- imported meat, fruit and re-- , uct. China hinted Thursday cycled waste by the end of the that it might take retaliatory year and would improve the action against U.S. products monitoring of other imports. Gao Hucheng, a vice min-exported to China.. ister of commerce, pointedly Earlier this week, China reminded a news conference rejected a batch of pacemakers and asserted that' , that China is poised to over-U.S. soybean farmers sent take Japan as the United . States third-large-st shipments tainted with pesti-- . export V cide and weeds. market. A Commerce Ministry " On Thursday, the Stats handout, though, cited "discor- . U.S.-made- ,- Unemployment applications drop WASHINGTON Fewer people signed up for jobless benefits last week, an encouraging sign that most businesses aren't resorting to big layoffs amid a housing slump and the painful . credit crunch. The Labor Department reported Thursday that new applications filed for unemployment insurance dipped by 2,000 to 322,000 for the week ending Aug. 1& It marked the ; find drop in new claims in roughly a month. Theshowing was a bit higher than the 320,000 analysts were forecasting. Still, the level of claims suggested that the employment climate remains in fairly good shape despite problems in housing, tighter credit, and turmoil on Wall Street in recent weeks. Recall largely due to new standards . dant notes in bilateral trade ties, citing media coverage of safety issues as among the problems. Gao accused American news organizations of grossly exag-gerating problems With Chinas exports. The Chinese govern- ment thinks certain media. . . sensationalize he quality prob- lems of Chinese products, Gao said. "Deliberate sensational- ism and overstatement win not be accepted by China. . Retaliation by China against UJS. products would be es- - pecially costly for American agricultural exporters. U.S. soybean shipments to China are valued at $3 billion annu- ally, and grain shippers were waiting to learn whether China would take action after k announced Wednesday that k had detected numerous quality problems" with U.S. soy beans arriving earlier in the year. A U.S. soybean industry rep-- ; resentat ive in Bering dismissed See CHINA, . D5 Color - Taste - Aroma . .... BEIJING A global recall of millions of Chinese-mad-e toy s was the result of new industry standards, not poor quality, .. - an official said Thursday, as a high-levpanel announced the launch erf a nationwide safety campaign. Earlier this month, Mattel Inc. recalled almost 19 million Chinese-mad- e items, including dolls, cars and action figures. Some were contaminated with lead paint, while others had small, powerful magnets that children might swallow and damage their organs.. Vice Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said 18.2 million erf dolls the recalled products including popular and Barbie play sets were pulled off shelves because of a . revision of international standards in May involving magnets. el . . Folly-Rock- et Bank of America gives Countrywide a lifeline LOS ANGELES Struggling mortgage giant Countrywide Financial Corp. was thrown a financial lifeline Wednesday by Bank of America Corp. ; Calabasas-base- d Countrywide announced that BofA had made a 2 billion investment in the company in the form erf preferred stock. Countrywide will pay Bof A an annualized yield of 7.25 percent on the investment . The news sent Countrywides battered stock soaring to . s $25.83 in trading. It had closed at $21.82 In regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange, up 3 cents for the after-hour- . , day. the nations largest mortgage lender, has been Countrywide, ' reeling for 10 days as rumors have swirled, about its financial. condition. The company has been squeezed by the credit V. . crunch on Wall Street, as lenders and investors have shut off credit to many mortgage companies amid fears of deepening woes in the housing sector. . Macs turns to Tramp, Martha Stewart BRYAN MTMCKSacramento Baa Ann Noble picks out tomatoes at the Davis Formers Market on Aug. & Noble, a retired University of Califorma-Davi- s food scientist, is known around the globe for her guide to the world of wine scents. Now she's putting her nose to the tomato.. - connoisseurs : CHICAGO Macy's Inc is turning to celebrities to help boost recognition of its brand, a move aimed at winning over shoppers to stores R converted almost a year aga The department store chain plans to launch a television advertising campaign in September that will feature more than a dozen stars including Donald Trump, Jessica Simpson, Usher and Martha Stewart. The celebrities, most of whom have collections sold at Macy's, are depicted tending to their departments and poking fun at each othor. This is a way to bring to life many of the brands we carry, said Macys spokesman Jim Sluzew&kL The brand campaign is a switch from last fall, when Macys then called Federated Department Stores Inc launched its first national TV ads to promote the conversion of 400 de-- . part ment stores nationwide to Macy's. Last year's campaign. ' showed actors walking through sketches of labels such as various American cities touting Macys Alfani and I.N.G . : . Jim Downing' nia, Davis, food scientist, travels the planet teaching people to listen to their noses. Her copyrighted Wuw Aroma Wheel, ; he complexities of the wines used around the world, divides wine aro-and those mas into 90 distinct scents of Napa and Bordeaux are no match for Ann Nobles 90, she says, are only the most common. nose. In seconds, she can In the middle of last summer, Noble got discern notes of raspberry a call to sniff into something different: the tomato. from blackberry, parse licorice from dove, green grass from hay. Georgeanne Brennan, an author and v The humble tomato from the local farm- - food consultant in Winters, Calif., was er market, however, has proved more of exploring the idea that tomato growers a puzzle. might build the regions reputation as a source for fine tomatoes by borrowing Noble, a retired Universfty of Califor- MCCIATCHY NEWSPAPERS ; , a page from the premium wine business: Through tastings, give customers a way to appreciate subtleties of aroma and flavor and texture. Show them wRy the areas heirloom tomatoes are unique and and worth a premium price. special Brennan got the idea to call Noble after talking with Thaddeus Barsotti, an organic farmer in Capay, Calif., who wanted a better way to describe the subtleties of his dozen varieties of heirloom tomatoes to shoppers at farmers markets, See TOMATOES, D5 black-and-whi- - Stocks of local interest - jm ASSY . snnrr . 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Offices have had strong More than 1,200 times a . month, the box finds such pricomputer controls for years, from inbound protections like vate data and automatically antivirus programs to filtering routes the message to a server that encrypts k for secrecy technologies that block porn or Web sites. This new before sending it to its original destination. Sometimes, generation of software sticks its nose into even more of what though, the box is unsure what to do, so k asks Sharon Finney. people do an day. For example, one Finney is the information vendor, Orches-tri- a security administrator, which makes her responsible for Corp., says ks software could have prevented the CEO keeping the hospital in tune ' of Whole Foods Market Inc. with medical privacy laws. blythemocMii Preu from posting the Several times a went, the comments on Internet messaging-contro- l system, set. Sharon Fmncy, Information Security Administrator at DeKalb Medical Center in Decatur, Go. checks message boards that he later security in the up by Proofpoint Inc, alerts came to regret. Finney to awaiting her data control room Aug. 17. How so? Because Orches-tria'- s review. software can be set to What Im looking for is not notice when certain keywords I'm looking at, is this a le-so much someone sending out people was copied in on a a competitor's name, for gitimate recipient?" Maybe an spreadsheet with patient ac- something intentional or vol- email address was mistyped, count numbers, umes of info inappropriately See COMPUTERS, D5 for example, or one too many Such careful oversight is leaving the hospital, she says, . THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . . . . three-hospit- al wex-ker- . . communi-cations-contr- ol . . t r A r r 3 |