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...least you knew where you stood. Yitzhak Rabin's first days as Israel's Prime Minister have put Arabs and Palestinians in a similar bind. He has yanked open the door to serious negotiations against which they had been pushing, only to find them in a tangled heap on the floor, their muscles stiff and unprepared for a vigorous pas de deux...
Other departing students have attempted to apply similar entrepreneurial skills to unloading four years worth of accumulated furniture, crates and appliances. With a little wheeling and dealing, many seniors attempt to turn their heap of unwanted belongings into pure profit...
...million transport and public employees was remarkably well managed. On any one of the 11 days it lasted, only about 400,000 of the union's workers actually stayed off the job. That was sufficient to throw commuters into confusion, ground airplanes and pile up a moderate heap of uncollected garbage. It demonstrated the union's power but did not produce the elemental disorder Germans find so distasteful...
...GREAT THING ABOUT PLASTIC IS THAT IT IS cheap and it lasts forever. Unfortunately, as an inventory of any trash heap reveals, those are also its bad qualities. Scientists have spent more than a decade developing biodegradable polymers, but so far they have proved 10 times as expensive to produce as petroleum-based versions. Last week researchers at Michigan State University in East Lansing and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., announced that for the first time, they have coaxed the production of a biodegradable plastic from a very inexpensive source: green plants...
...Well, I've made a couple of pointed remarks about that. But the facts are bad enough; I don't really need to heap on much rhetoric. But people really ought to start voting in this society and stop grumbling, see the facts as they...