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...junk all over the roadside?" said Lee last week, taking a break along the shoulder of Highway 15 in the middle of the Mojave Desert. He shuffled a half mile back down the road to a camper where his wife Grace, 72, was watching over a dozen sacks and cardboard cartons brimful with cans. "It's just terrible to see this litter," she said. "But picking it up is fun. We get good exercise, and the fresh air revives...
...crowd advances, tossing rocks and cardboard tubes. Behind the closed ranks of the police, a black man is pummeled. A white woman in a beaver coat lunges next to him. She is clubbed on the back and falls face down in the gutter. Owens climbs onto the roof of the sound truck at the front of the column. He asks for attention. The crowd won't listen. His brown color-coordinated coat, pants and tie have the look of Esquire's fashion page. His moustache is definitely in Vogue...
...hauled away and dumped somewhere?out of sight and mind. But lately, as disposal costs mount and dumping sites in metropolitan areas get scarcer, cities have been thinking anew about their solid wastes. What they have found is that from 70% to 80% of the refuse consists of paper, cardboard, wood, plastics and food scraps. The rest is mostly glass and metal. Their conclusion: with a little modern alchemy, municipal garbage can be converted into municipal gold...
TODAY FASCISM DIES...a lengthy strip of cardboard bearing that willful message punctuated the debris strewn in the wake of rebellion at the Athens Polytecnic School nearly a year ago. Fascism is no more perishable than the phoenix, but its victims die. The Greek people suffered from brutal repression to which America was an accomplice for seven years. With the national elections tomorrow--the first in over a decade--Greece will quench internal tyranny, and the United States will have an opportunity to show that it is not wedded to unlawful terrorist regimes...
Nine actors dressed in black, representing each city councilor, presented a cardboard model of Cambridge to two actors holding a banner bearing a picture of MIT, which is a principal backer of the Neighborhood Plan...