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Opponents are scathing in their criticism of the well-intentioned effort. "The designers of this system should have known that most people would observe it," says Volrad Wolny, a waste-management expert at Eco-Institute, an environmental watchdog organization. "Ecological awareness in Germany is very high." He says DSD executives gave guarantees they knew could not be met. "They knew they did not have the technology in place." Wolny and others want to compel producers to cut plastic packaging by up to 50%. And the Greens, meanwhile, feel the Green Dot gives their party a bad name. They would like...
...role on the farm: My older brother is the animal expert but I'm really good with plants and flowers and cooking. My lemon butter has won the blue ribbon at the Delaware state fair three times. It's my great-grandmother's recipe. It's pretty cool to win, especially when you beat out some old lady who's been winning for the past fifteen years...
Rapid economic growth in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea has been fueled by the use of technology and the free market system, a leading expert on East Asian political economy said in a speech at the Yenching Library yesterday...
...idea was never seriously considered. "The R-word was absolutely forbidden," says an outside expert who attended health adviser Ira Magaziner's planning meetings. Quite shrewdly, it seems. In most opinion polls, citizens lean against rationing, even in the abstract...
Islam recognizes no distinction between mosque and state, theology and politics. Of course, not all Muslims are what Americans call fundamentalists. The term is not used in Islam, which calls the zealots "Islamists" or "activists." Says Mary Jane Deeb, an expert on Islam at the American University in Washington: "The majority of Muslims are secular in the sense that they see that politics and their beliefs can be separate." Nor do all so-called fundamentalists condone the use of violence and terrorism to achieve their goals...