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Countering the damage done by business practices through support of environmental organizations is one way to address the problem. Reducing the actual damage is another. "There have been some noble efforts," says Hershkowitz, citing as an example cosmetics-brand-driven recycling programs that encourage customers to return used packaging. "But it's not the disposal of the plastic container that causes the big environmental impact. It's the production of the bottle. The coal, the gas, the coloring agents, the heavy-metal stabilizers, the refining of the petroleum to make the plastic containers?it all creates a tremendous amount...
...clearly entering into a new time, and it is being driven by the consumer," says Marshal Cohen, industry analyst at NPD Group in New York. "The consumer is buying products that are more relevant, and it is swaying the way the industry operates. Brands are having to make their products' functions speak louder than their blitz...
...this efficiency-driven environment, sleep is viewed as a time-waster demanding minimization. The rare night of more than six hours of good sleep leaves us with a nagging sensation that we could have better spent our time. When weighing the marginal utility of an hour of sleep against powering through the rest of that Ec 10 problem set, you know which option always wins. Even if all those graphs and data have evaporated from our sleep-starved brains the next week, at least we got a check plus...
...Ghazaliyah, northeast of Baghdad's airport, Iraq's savage and complex civil war has been playing out in miniature. Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia has been encroaching from Shula, the Shi'a-dominated neighborhood to the north. The Sunni minority has virtually vanished from northern Gazaliyah, driven away by murder and intimidation. In the heavily Sunni southern part of the neighborhood homegrown insurgents and foreign jihadists have been attacking the Americans and Shi'a-dominated security forces...
...boring, routine, intense and repetitive, and then 1 per cent terror and frenetic activity when an attack came in." He added: "The speed of attack was so much faster than in previous campaigns, as the aircraft were all jet-powered and the missiles were intelligent rather than the propeller-driven aircraft of World War II and iron bombs...