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Water beads have long been criticized for being dangerous, even fatal, for kids. Now two members of a government watchdog are tearing into a decision by the acting chair of the body to delay a ...
Waist beads have been used for centuries in West African cultures as symbols of fertility, sexuality, and spirituality. Today, they have many practical and aesthetic uses around the world.
The likelihood of finding a non-bead-cultured pearl was even more remote, since the farmers’ intent is to produce bead-cultured pearls and not the accidental non-bead-cultured pearls (“keshi”) that ...