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...refurbishing and reselling firm, jumped into the recycling business in 2005 to end those practices. "We used to work with companies that claimed that all materials were properly recycled in the U.S. But on at least three occasions, I watched them load computers onto export containers," says Dan Fuller, EPC's president. EPC "demanufactures" 150 tons of equipment a month for about $10 per computer. Workers take apart monitors by hand, sending the leaded glass tubing to a Missouri smelting operation. A hulking baler crunches plastic hardware to a tenth its size, and metals are extracted and sold...
...been said before? With so many fans of the book all over the globe, this movie may already have the lock on being the biggest flick of ’06. Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, and Paul Bettany star in this Ron Howard-directed adaptation of Dan Brown’s unstoppable book.With the novel back to the top of sales again, it seems everyone wants to read it before the movie comes out.Like many movies this summer, this one has a huge built-in audience and the curiosity factor is sky high. And with Oscar-winners Howard and Hanks...
...ways in a dominant open-water win over both crews. The Crimson took the inside lane off the staggered start, its boat positioned four seats behind Yale and a length behind Princeton.“I was really happy that we had lane one,” captain stroke Dan Reid said. “You start down, but I had a lot of faith in our ability to move aggressively in the first 1,000. And once you hit the turn, you almost win—it’s like a free length...
...this is not new. For every Franklin or Jefferson cited by Bollard, there were a dozen men like Dan Sickles, who seduced the Queen of Spain, or Robert Schenck, who as Minister to the Court of St. James taught the British to play draw poker and then cheated them out of millions. All were political figures, not professional diplomats. The U.S. did not have a professional diplomatic corps until the early 20th century. Many Americans remain ambivalent about it, in contrast to other professions like the military. It is hard to imagine the American people tolerating a high number...
...Republican official familiar with the selection process said Snow, 50, was chosen because Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and Counselor Dan Bartlett want "an informed and successful advocate" who can spar with reporters and make the White House case more aggressively - both off-camera and on. One official said the cerebral Bolten wanted someone who could be "not an intellectual equal, but an intellectual peer." Snow, who was speechwriting director for President George H.W. Bush, is a longtime friend of Bolten's, and they recently had lunch together...