Its lawmakers gave preliminaryapproval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.
上周，立法者初步批准了一项法律，规定雇用过于瘦弱的模特走秀是犯罪行为。
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Late last week, a federal judge in California gave preliminaryapproval to a settlement of the class action lawsuit regarding Facebook's Beacon program.
A preliminary blood screening could reduce some of the demand, experts said - if the test proves valid in larger studies and receives federal approval.