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...German Recycling Many nations are starting to recycle things that are easy to get out of the waste stream, such as paper and glass, but the Germans have gone much further. In 1993 Germany expanded its recycling program to include all product packaging -- from gum wrappers to yogurt cups. A glut of recyclables has hampered the program, but the Germans are committed to making it work...
...years ago and turn it into an official federal tourist trap. Fortunately, this center in the blast-zone heart of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument nicely avoids both government-issue banality and hokey log-cabin regionalism. Spencer Associates, based in Palo Alto, California, has created a spectacular glass-covered grand hall, from which one can gawk at acres of ash, lava beds, charred cedar stumps and, eight miles away, the still active volcano...
...place at the Crimson’s Murr Center Nov. 4-8, will be held at Harvard. It has taken place at Boston’s Symphony Hall for the past three years. The Harvard squash teams’ traditional home in the Murr Center now includes the 13 glass-backed courts and one four-sided glass feature court, in addition to a temporary 700-seat squash arena located on the indoor tennis courts. “I really think that our facilities will be showcased to the community over the four or five days that the tournament will take...
...agreed on the need for more minority representation in editorial and managerial positions.Al Young, a desk editor and writer in the Living and Arts Department of the Boston Globe, said that although more minorities are working as reporters, they now need to “break the glass ceiling” and find positions where they can decide what stories to cover and who to hire.Young cited the fact that journalism is not viewed as a traditional career for Asians and other minorities as one major roadblock for minority journalists.Young, who calls himself the “Jackie Robinson...
...There was noise, and screaming, and then I saw bodies covered with blood lying all around," Chawla says, gesturing to the ground, now covered with glass shards, and tattered bits of clothing; one cycle-rickshaw, partially destroyed, lies amidst the mess. Windows of several nearby building have shattered; and the sign-boards above the shops have been bent backwards, as if by a giant hair-dryer blowing at them. Chawla says, "I saw one child which couldn't have been more than six months old, which was dead; its body had been split by the blast. And then there...