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...present discard rate, Tokyo will run out of dump sites by 1995. The city has been building artificial islands in Tokyo Bay to hold garbage, but cannot continue to do so without threatening both the fishing and shipping industries. Some critics argue that in its obsession with technology, the government has chosen the wrong tack. Notes Keisuke Amagusa, editor of the journal Technology and People: "The government is focusing on garbage collected and not doing anything to reduce the garbage created...
Kontoff, who was joined in yesterday's demonstration by a handful of supporters, said he was fired by the Transit Retailing Partnership, Inc., which owns Out-of-Town-News, for posting political messages on his pushcart in the Back Bay T station...
This November, the Transit Retail Partnership, which handles the contractors of the vending space at Back Bay, began sending notices to Kontoff to remove the posters and sticker from his bagel cart. He was also warned that he could not use a toaster for his bagels since it might blow a fuse at the T station...
Number of women who have played a game in a major league team sport. For one period of a preseason skirmish, Manon Rheaume, 20, was in goal for the N.H.L.'s Tampa Bay Lightning, and her bosses say she has a chance to make the team. Can her achievement be a harbinger of gender integration? We bet there's a Little League tomboy phenom who could play shortstop for the Yankees someday. (And soon, please!) We also bet Oprah Winfrey could take George Foreman...
This top shelf of advisers drew applause from some surprising corners. The Wall Street Journal editorial board praised the team as "all-in-all reassuring." Bay Buchanan, a conservative Republican activist, joked that "the only liberal in the group is Bill Clinton...