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...Helsinki accord calls on industrialized countries to create a U.N. fund that would help the developing world adapt to life without CFCs, which are used, among other things, as refrigerator coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam. Just how this would be done was not specified. Still, Norway's Environment Minister Sissel Ronbeck announced that her country would contribute 0.1% of its gross national product, or about $88 million, if others would do the same...
Dennis Kelso, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, told a congressional panel the spill has caused "550 miles of oil, filthy foam and tar balls...
...fabled Golden Aphrodite! Also known as Kallipygos (Beautiful Buttocks). Borne full-blown from the sea (aphros means foam; -dite rhymes with nightie). Worshiped for centuries by amorous couples coupling clamorously. She was Homer's Goddess of Pure and Heavenly Love, but we forget that Homer was blind. So, alas, are we. Turns out that Aphrodite (Venus to you Romans) was not Ms. Clean at all but the Goddess of Naughty Sex. It is she we can thank for most + of mankind's sexual problems, and chief among these is our obsession with her elusive elixir, the aphrodisiac...
...chemicals that destroy the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. After all, America banned CFCs from spray cans more than a decade ago. And U.S. manufacturers are among the world's leaders in finding environmentally acceptable substitutes for CFCs, which are used as coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam...
UNFORTUNATELY, the sets and the stars are not entirely enough to redeem two-and-a-half hours of still-born lines. If you get as drunk as the patrons of Cafe Ole and really enjoy jiggling foam, maybe you won't notice...