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...place: Everything, including the shake cup, felt covered in a thin layer of grease, as if it had been misted on. The napkins, included by the counter employee in the cardboard serving box, had been nestled between the burgers and were nearly useless for any serious post-meal cleanup. I made two trips to the bathroom for hand-washes and paper towels...
...decade of financial scandals. Since the early 1990s, at least 30 prominent figures of all political stripes, including former Cabinet ministers and corporate CEOs, have been investigated for offenses ranging from influence peddling and embezzlement to illegal party funding and bribery. The judicial independence evident in this sweeping cleanup is one of the most striking aspects of the new France; such investigations would have been quashed under the old system. Says Olivier Nora, head of France's prestigious Grasset publishing house: "There is a rise in the sense of ethics and a general impression of corruption...
...towering stack. "It's hard work, but it's fun work," Hoffman says, describing a regimen of 12-hour days hauling discarded Porta Potties from stagnant, snake-filled sloughs.The crew will scour 900 miles of river this year, stopping off in towns along the way for daylong community-cleanup festivals that bring out hundreds of local volunteers...
ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP Specialized nanobots dumped into an oil spill, a toxic-waste site or even a polluted stream could seek out and find dangerous molecules, remove them or change their chemical structure one by one to render them harmless--or even beneficial...
...When I interviewed Walsh for the first time, on the eve of Opening Day of the 1998 season, I asked how he could replace the team's two graduates--cleanup-hitting Pete Albers and Ivy Pitcher of the Year Frank Hogan. Walsh interrupted to correct me, told me there had been three seniors on the 1997 team, and made his apologia for Brush: "He might have looked like who-knows-what, but he came to play every...