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The article offers tips on what to do with beauty product samples including donating unwanted samples and hosting a sample swap.

The article discusses brand-name pharmaceutical companies' efforts to prevent the manufacture of low-cost copies of their drugs by generic pharmaceutical companies based on an appeal to U.S. drug safety laws as of April 15, 2013. Topics addressed include brand-name companies' restriction of access to samples of certain drugs; and issues related to pharmaceutical companies such as Actelion, Novartis, and Lundbeck. INSET: Contention in Making Generic Drugs.

The article reports on the trend in beauty-sample subscription services in the U.S. wherein subscribers trade away some of the samples that they obtained. It explores the experiences of several subscribers who trade their stocks including product manager Liz Corry, educator Sybil Yang, and nursing assistant Linda Hoare. It provides a brief corporate profile of services including beauty-sample subscription services including Birchbox Inc., GlossyBox, and Amarya.

Gary Cruz, an interior designer, is offering 20 percent off his new collection of hand-knotted Tibetan rugs through May 30 (the 8-by-10-foot Times Red wool-and-silk rug, above left, regularly $6,400, is $5,120). Information: (212) 243-3250 or garycruzstudio.com. All samples are 40 to 60 percent off at Clodagh Design's moving sale, through May 20 (a Squish sofa, originally $12,000, is $4,000; the Urban Bookcase, regularly $3,602, is $2,161): 670 Broadway (Great Jones Street), (212) 780-5300 or clodaghcollection.com. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BASED on the bond between men and their barbecue grills, you might think an affinity for flame would translate indoors to the fireplace. But in a recent campaign for its manufactured logs, Duraflame has made women the center of attention. To promote a new product, Stax, the company sent samples to dozens of blogs for women, most of them aimed at mothers. Unlike its cylindrical logs, Duraflame's new Stax logs are wedge-shaped to resemble split firewood. Along with writing reviews, bloggers promoted Stax to their readers through giveaways sponsored by Duraflame, which provided coupons for three-packs of Stax that normally sell for $9.99. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nestle USA said Wednesday that two samples of its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough made at a Virginia factory tested positive for E. coli bacteria this week despite rigorous safety measures put in place after a recall of the product last summer. Nestle also said the tainted dough had not left the factory and no recall was necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Product samples work, according to a study by the research firm Arbitron. More than a third of the people who accept a sample in a store or a mall go on to buy the product that day, the study found. And 58 percent who sampled products said they would buy them in the future. ''It's universally thought that product sampling is effective for same-day sales, but the long-term effects were surprising to me,'' said Olga Jourova, the study's author. The study was based on 1,857 telephone interviews with a nationally representative panel. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bush administration moved forward on Friday with a program to expand collecting DNA samples from people in federal custody. But it was unclear how federal laboratories would be able to handle the added work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that some leading academic medical centers in New York are restricting the use of free medicine samples. A smattering of physician practices are shutting down the sample cabinet kept in medical offices containing the latest medications. Critics say that free samples obstructs a doctor in choosing appropriate medication for a patient. The ban on free samples comes amid growing concern about the close ties between physicians and drug companies.

The article focuses on growth of sample sales in New York City and few other cities. It is informed that sample sales is most popular among fashion-savvy customers of urban shopping malls. According to editor Dannielle Romano, nearly 70 percent of sample sales are in New York and it is becoming popular in Los Angeles, California.

Features payless phones that are free for calls shorter than several minutes, part of a campaign by a small communications company called Popa Media Big Apple in New York City. Use of the phones to sell snappy advertisements placed next to the phones that the company hopes callers cannot help but notice.

Discusses the product sampling campaign for the Dove Body Refreshers product of Unilever company, in collaboration with the Bally Total Fitness company and other fitness clubs in May 2002 in the U.S.

Reports that the New York City police ceremonial unit has been appointed the task of preparing samples of the World Trade Center debris for relatives of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims.

Focuses on Willy Loman, the central character in Arthur Miller's play `Death of a Salesman,' and the question of what he sold. Question of whether the identity of the product affects the character's emotional destruction; Evidence of the author's inconsistency with his characters' professional lives; Speculation about the contents of Loman's valises.

Reports that from fall 1998, samples of cosmetics as well as perfumes will be placed in the editorial pages of magazines. Information on cosmetics which will be enclosed in the September 1998 issue of `Allure' magazine; Comments from Linda Wells, the editor of Allure.