Word: fiber
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...heart of Clinton's plan calls for an $80 billion four-year public-works project to rebuild roads and bridges and create a national fiber-optic information network to enhance learning and to link homes, schools and offices. Clinton also wants a national education and retraining program, financed by a 1.5% payroll tax, for all employees from the mail room to the executive suite. Bush rejects the very idea of public-works projects but has belatedly called for a $10 billion four-year worker-retraining program...
...long time, the College has used 100 percent recycled paper." said Harper, "There is some truth to the fact that recycled fiber...may not be quite as strong, but we are drying hands. We are not talking about ripping towels...
Hughes said Scott offered a more ecologicallysound package than Fort Howard. He said thatthough Scott's paper has a lower percentage ofrecycled fiber, it is of better quality than ForHoward's paper...
...five American elementary schools -- two in Massachusetts and three in New York -- such experiments already exist. Called "Microsociety," these programs bear as much resemblance to the standard neighborhood school -- with its traditional textbooks, work sheets and lesson plans -- as fiber-optic communication does to sending smoke signals. At a time when reformers, corporate leaders and politicians are all heralding the need for "break the mold" schools, Microsociety puts the radical rhetoric to the test...
...secret electronic and chemical weapons tested during the Gulf War. Cruise missiles generating devastating electromagnetic fields will knock out power plants and transmission towers as they fly over them, while destroying all data stored in tapes and disks at the targets. Other missiles will release showers of carbon-fiber dust to short out electrical installations. A CIA chemical, sprayed on roads or airfields, will rot tires. And if operatives can get close enough, a new microbe, dropped into fuel tanks of jets, tanks and trucks, will be brought into play to turn the fuel into useless jelly...