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...Marcos, Texas, should have been suspicious when inmates bought hundreds of yards of dental floss from the prison commissary. The inmates were not concerned with dental hygiene. They braided the floss into a rope that they fashioned into a ladder with stirrups made of fabric threaded through cardboard salt and pepper shakers. Using hacksaw blades smuggled into the prison in the soles of bathing slippers, the trio managed to saw through two of three Plexiglas panels in a window of their dorm cellblock...
Besides improving the food in the dining hall, Berry has also been campus environmentalists' best friend this year, promising to replace disposable cups in the Union next year with permanent glass and plastic. Cereal, too, will be served in large containers to reduce cardboard waste. And Berry is planning to institute a comprehensive recycling program next year, beginning with a test run in the Union...
...tropical-timber trade in a study published by the World Wildlife Fund. To make sure the message hit home, Kuroda staged a series of publicity stunts in Tokyo. In 1989, he marshaled the press in front of Marubeni, a timber importer, and presented bewildered officials with a giant cardboard chainsaw as a grand prize for rain-forest destruction...
...change of cups, in the long run, will save the Dining Services "an incredible amount of money," Hockenstein said. Eliminating paper cups is only one part of the effort to make the Union more environmentally sound, Hockenstein added. The Union is replacing single-serve cardboard containers with new cereal dispensers and is selling mugs to help curtail paper-cup waste before year...
...home is his castle, even if home is a park bench or a cardboard box under a highway bridge. And a man's possessions, like his home, are protected by the Constitution from unlawful searches. That was the thrust of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered a new trial for David Mooney, a homeless man charged with murder because his property -- a duffel bag and a box stashed under a ramp leading onto Interstate 91 in New Haven -- had been searched by police without a warrant. "His duffel bag was luggage," observes criminal-law professor Lloyd Weinreb...