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...advantages, as it is more opaque than virgin paper, and drawbacks since its content can be unknown. But Gogan said the differences are slight. Gogan added that the U.S. government has been using 30 percent recycled paper since 1996 to print items such as treasury notes and postage stamps. Dollar bills are printed on 100 percent recycled paper and Harvard watermark paper has 50 percent recycled content, he said. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at clshover@fas.harvard.edu...
...both companies were bumper profits from exploration and production units. Those at Shell's climbed 52% to more than $5 billion, and BP's did even better. But given the surging price of a barrel of oil, both businesses must share the plaudits with the markets. A spiraling dollar and jitters over supply have helped drive oil prices up almost a quarter this year, reaching a fresh record of almost $120 on Monday. An end Tuesday to the two-day strike over pensions by refinery workers in Scotland - which had earlier halted much of the North Sea's oil production...
...appeal from their disgraced predecessor. He turned up on a giant screen during the game show “Deal or No Deal” last week. To its host, Howie Mandel, President Bush cracked: “How’d you like to host a three-trillion dollar Deal or No Deal?” Yes, he was talking about the budget, and he had some great material on waterboarding they cut for time. But Democrats who find their once-electric primary narrative gone lifeless, wooden and bland should hardly despair, even if it doesn?...
...Back in the day, in high school, I came in second place by one dollar. And then ten years later had a reunion of former Teen Jeopardy! contestants, and I came in second in that again...
...championship for the Empowerment Fund raised over $200,000 last year, according to Oneida Nation spokesman Mark F. Emery. The Oneida Nation has also established a $3 million dollar endowment in 2003 to fund a professorship at the Law School for visiting scholars to teach American Indian...