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With the explosion of Latin American literature in the latter half of this century, authors such as Borges and Cortazar, Marquez and Puig have become household names for many Northern Americans. Their work brings into stark focus the social and intellectual conditions in countries with often brutally oppressive regimes...
...produce superconductors that can perform their magic at less frigid temperatures that are easier to reach and maintain. What's exciting about the latest mercury compounds, Chu points out, is that they can theoretically do their thing with the help of ordinary coolants like Freon, which circulates in household refrigerators...
...problem is simple economics: too much supply (used material) and not enough demand (for recycled products). When that happens, prices drop. And have they! The average value of a ton of household waste fell from $100 in 1988 to $44 in 1992. Glass bottles rise in shiny mounds in Seattle; plastic containers fill warehouses in Johnsonville, South Carolina...
There are some solutions to the household waste, but not recycling ones. Space for cheap landfills, once thought virtually exhausted, turns out to be still widely available. Seattle, for example, has landfill for 100 years, even without recycling. Modern incinerators, though hardly without their critics, offer a tidier alternative for waste disposal. The 1980s saw a binge in new incinerator construction, and cities across the country, from Long Beach, California, to Fairfax, Virginia, now burn some of their trash, turning a portion of it into energy in the process...
Indeed, an August 16 Time magazine reports that slowing the growth of health care costs from 12 percent to 8 percent "would do more for the budget of the Federal government, for every corporate budget and, overtime, for every household in America than anything this deal and every other deficit deal combined ever anticipated...