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...potato chips and pickles. There is even a sizzling rock band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "There are very few bad things about peppers," says David DeWitt, editor of Chile Pepper, a bimonthly magazine with a circulation of 80,000. "They have virtually no calories, no cholesterol, high fiber, high vitamin A and C content." As a result, says DeWitt, who will help put on a "Fiery Foods" show in Albuquerque, New Mexico, next February, chile has become a $3 billion industry in the U.S. alone...
...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...