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CLEVELAND — Move over, greeting cards with sounds or smells. A new entry from an Ohio company plays to the sense of taste.

American Greetings on Monday announced the launch of Tasties, a line of cards that come with dissolvable flavor strips meant to be eaten by the recipients.

The Cleveland-based company says each sealed strip offers a "tasty surprise" that corresponds to the message on the card. For example, a card that features the image of a cupcake and a line about birthdays providing an excuse to eat cake comes with an insert made to taste like a cupcake.

Other cards in the series come with flavors that include a doughnut and a margarita.

BEIJING — Google said today it will stop automatically rerouting users of its China search site to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license.Google shut down its China-based search engine March 22 to avoid cooperating with the communist government's Internet censorship and has rerouted users to its unfiltered site in Hong Kong. But Google said regulators told the company its Internet license, which expires Wednesday, would not be renewed if that continues."They made it clear to us that they did not think the redirect was acceptable," said a Google spokeswoman, Jessica Powell. She declined to say what reasons the government gave for its objections.Google still operates a music download service and several other features on Google.cn that are not affected by filtering regulations and Powell said it wants those services to continue.Instead of automatically being switched to Hong Kong, visitors to Google.cn now see a tab that says in Chinese "We have moved to google.com.hk." Users can click on that tab to move to the Chinese-language site in Hong Kong, which is a Chinese territory but has Western-style civil liberties with no Internet filtering.There was no immediate word from Beijing about whether the measure was sufficient for Google to keep its Chinese Internet license."This new approach is consistent with our commitment not to self-censor and, we believe, with local law," said Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, on a company blog.

ELKHART, Ind. — Indiana officials say Pennsylvania-based Santelli Tempered Glass will invest $3.7 million in a new 32,500-square-foot plant in Elkhart.They say the plant will create up to 35 new jobs by 2013.The company makes tempered glass for new and replacement residential windows.Santelli Glass says it will start hiring machine operators, plant management and maintenance staff later this summer and will begin operations next month. scheduled to commence in July.The company is four years old and has 45 employees at facilities in Monessen, Pa., and Ocala, Fla.

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