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...barrel of crude oil hits the $75 mark, the gas pump may not be the only place you feel the pain. About 1 million bbl. a day--roughly 5% of U.S. consumption--go toward the manufacture of plastics, detergents and other nonfuel products. Researchers are working on cheaper, eco-friendlier alternatives to oil-derived ingredients, but with the prevalence of petroleum, that's a big challenge. Here's another: Test your knowledge by checking the boxes next to the products that typically use petroleum-based ingredients. Answers are at the bottom. HOUSE PAINT...
...coaching. “The training environment here is very different to what it was at home,” she said. “Even though there are fewer people here to fence, they’re a lot more motivated and it’s a lot friendlier and more intense. “I actually think my fencing has gotten better here, which is not true of most college fencers.” Ungar has had an impressive season too, from his gold in epee in NCAAs to a victory in the January World Cup in Germany...
...Jaafari's failure to achieve a unity government also represents an opportunity to seek a friendlier face in the top job of Iraq's new government, although it's far from clear that Abdul Mahdi is any less beholden to Iran than Jaafari...
...songs but in the singer. For years, Young's legion of fans has always loved the music but not necessarily the man. Now the chameleon-like Young--who has alternated among introspective folkie, protest rocker and reverb reveler--has morphed again, this time into something far friendlier. The rendition of the song Heart of Gold ("I want to live/ I want to give ...") feels as if it were written specifically for the film, not for 1972's Harvest. Young, in his new balance of power and gentleness, has rarely looked so comfortable in his own boots: confident, proud and resigned...
...capital, he?s mellowed slightly as a congressman, but is still known for occasionally yelling at congressional staffers and adding profanity to every other sentence. Schumer, who won a seat in the New York State Assembly at the age of 23 after graduating from Harvard Law School, is friendlier, but can be just as grating. Trying to get the White House to support a provision he wanted in a crime bill in 1994, he grabbed one of Clinton?s aides, backed him against a wall and said, ?You?ve got to do this.? (It worked.) On the Senate Judiciary Committee...