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Even the famously middlebrow Wal-Mart chain is getting in on the act. The retailer is designing an "environmental store" in Lawrence, Kansas, that could become the prototype for all future Wal-Marts and for retrofitting the chain's existing stores. The retail outlet will be built mostly of wood and concrete block -- materials that require 33% less energy to produce than steel -- and feature an elaborate, high-efficiency lighting system enhanced by skylights that use holographic films to spread daylight evenly over the space. The store will have its own recycling center so that shipping boxes never have...
SPOA President John Natale, who testified yesterday in a prisoner's outfit complete with ball and chain, told the committee, "This is not theater...
...experienced. Still Learning How to Crawl takes this theme of sentimental education and extends it past the age of anxiety into a kind of perpetual present tense, where lessons learned lead only to renewed uncertainty. Death of a Train has a real undertow of prairie melancholy, and The Unbreakable Chain is a little like a Lanois echo of Series of Dreams, a rhythmic rumination on the elisions of fantasy and desire...
...when U.S. scientific intelligence teams dashed into Germany in the final days of the war in Europe, they found only small experimental reactors incapable of even a self-sustaining chain reaction. Heisenberg had been working on them all right, but with little money or organization and on a part-time basis. Compared with the Manhattan Project, there was no German bomb program...
...same time." Eventually, with luck, the pieces start coming together. "Some of it is misinformation, some of it is disinformation," says Jenkins, "and some small portion is information. You have to sort all that out. In the ideal situation, these paths begin to converge. You get a chain of physical evidence that takes you all the way from the debris back to the perpetrator...