child-resistant, childproof, repel, multi-drug resistant, save the day. The US and its allies risk paying a much steeper longer-term price if they fail to repel Russian aggression now, writes economist Lars Calmfors.

The US and its allies risk paying a much steeper longer-term price if they fail to repel Russian aggression now, writes economist Lars Calmfors. https://on.ft.com/3X9nOFt

The World Health Organisation is warning that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is becoming a major threat to global public health and security. The pressure is now on researchers to find new forms of treatment.

"My first big recipe was shark repellant that I mixed in a bathtub for the Navy, for the men who might get caught in the water."

Before she mastered the art of French cooking, Julia Child cooked up shark repellent while working for the precursor to the CIA as a covert operative during World War II. Sharks kept unintentionally setting off underwater explosives meant for German U-boats — until Child came up with an inventive recipe that saved the day.

Name of Product: “Gas Match” and “Ready, Aim…Fire” Multi-Purpose Lighters

Units: About 24,000

Importer: YMCA Trading Inc., of Maspeth, N.Y.

Hazard: The multi-purpose lighters fail to meet federal safety standards because they might not contain a child-resistant mechanism, posing a potential fire and burn hazard to young children.

說明 child-resistant包裝

In the 1960s there were several ingestions of aspirin by children. Many of these resulted in serious injury or death. In response, the United States Congress passed the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA) of 1970 which requires child-resistant packaging on products that could cause serious injury if accessed by young children.

Child-resistant packaging, or "special packaging," is designed or constructed to be significantly difficult for children under five years of age to open within a reasonable time but not difficult for normal adults. Child-resistant packaging saves lives. It is estimated that more than eight hundred children's lives have been saved by the requirement of child-resistant packaging on aspirin and prescription drugs. However, such packaging is called child-resistant, rather than childproof, because some children will be able to open it. For this reason experts caution people to lock up all medicine and hazardous material out of the reach of children.

The adjective resistant has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
Synonym: immune

Meaning #2: incapable of being affected

Meaning #3: disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive

Meaning #4: incapable of absorbing or mixing with
Synonym: repellent