Source: Bernhard Warner, Washington Post ( Free Registration )

In the past few days, we’ve seen product recalls for more than 1.5 million General Motors and Nissan automobiles for, respectively, faulty power steering and defective brakes. Closer to home, 1,000 “climate control” footrests, made by company based in Itasca, Ill., called Fellowes, were taken out of circulation last month for fear they would give their owners the proverbial “hot foot,” prone, as they are, to catching fire.

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