Consumer reports july 2009 edition

Products: 50 million bottles and packages of various kinds of Tylenol, Benadryl, Rolaids and other consumer products. Problem: lax cleaning procedures at manufacturing plant. Products: All lots of Softchews Rolaids antacids. Problem: wood and metal bits in the tablets.

Products: 12 million bottles of Mylanta and almost 85, bottles of AlternaGel liquid antacid. Problem: small amounts of alcohol from flavoring agents was not noted on product packaging.

Products: , boxes of 1 Day Acuvue TruEye contact lenses. Problem: consumer complaints of stinging pain. Problem: inadequate warning of trace amounts of alcohol used in the product flavorings. Products: 1 lot of adult Tylenol caplets. The company has said this action affected 2. But those products were reformulated before publication, so we did not include them in the Ratings.

Instead, we did a follow-up on their successors. Independent service is more satisfying People who took their car to an independent mechanic for maintenance were generally more satisfied than those who went to a dealership, according to our survey involving , vehicles. Eighty-four percent of owners reported being very satisfied with maintenance performed at independent shops compared with 77 percent at dealerships.

But they were more satisfied with the dealer service of some car brands than of others. Among the highest-scoring dealerships were Lexus, Buick, and Acura. On the other end of the scale, Volkswagen, Suzuki, Jeep, and Nissan owners were far less satisfied with dealer service. Overall, four domestic-car dealers—Buick, Saturn, Mercury, and Cadillac—scored relatively high. Volkswagen owners were among the least satisfied with their dealership maintenance.

Still, 82 percent said they were very satisfied with maintenance performed by their independent mechanic. Andrew Epstein, an assistant professor in New Haven, Conn. Among owners whose cars needed repairs and maintenance, the difference in satisfaction with dealers and independent shops was even more pronounced: 75 percent were very satisfied with independents vs.

Lexus, Acura, and Buick service departments came out on top, while Volkswagen and Jeep dealers rated among the lowest. Shopping Comparison of Notebooks and Laptops Netbooks are a lighter, cheaper alternative to traditional laptops.

Plus: New standard laptops and desktops. The words "flag, standard, colors, or ensign", as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America.

July 30, , ch. Display and use of flag by civilians, see section of Title 36 , Patriotic Societies and Observances.