Word: interest
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...Biosolids Management Plant, a city-owned facility that recycles sewage sludge and yard clippings into lawn fertilizer. The city desperately needed to upgrade its 1980s-built anaerobic digesters (you can see the foam insulation chipping off) and now has the money to do so, thanks to a 30-year interest-free loan from the federal stimulus package. To get the project funded, the city applied to the Texas Water Development Board, which had been handed stimulus money by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...cranky as Greenberg is, he's also lonely. He tries out the few old friends available to him in L.A., including another old bandmate, Ivan (Rhys Ifans, lovely as a gentle soul who has learned to live with disappointment), and finds their level of interest in him dissatisfying. The truth is, his old friends know Greenberg to be self-absorbed to the point of parody and they hold him at arm's length...
...Food labels are a big issue in the U.S. at the moment too. Earlier this month, a lobbying group called the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) issued a report calling for the U.S. government to require food and drink companies to summarize nutritional information with "easy to comprehend" symbols on the package front. First Lady Michelle Obama, who has made reducing childhood obesity one of her key goals, said recently that she'd like to see food companies start using more customer-friendly labels "so parents won't have to spend hours squinting at words that they...
...last time the Masters drew the interest of the larger media machine was in 2003, when news organizations of every stripe descended upon Augusta to cover the protests of Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations, who crusaded against Augusta National's men-only membership policy. But Burk set up shop outside the club, where the media had access to her. Tiger does his work inside the ropes of Augusta, so the club can cut off the larger circus. Expect many television stations to send trucks and reporters to camp outside Augusta to gather fan reactions...
...Pope. The head of Germany's Catholic Church, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, held a private audience with the Pope at the Vatican on Friday. After their meeting, the head of the German Bishops' Conference said he'd briefed the Pope on the situation in Germany. "With great shock, keen interest and deep sadness, the Holy Father took note of what I had to say," Zollitsch told reporters. The Archbishop said the Pope had encouraged German bishops to proceed with "determination and courage" in investigating the allegations of abuse, and added that church leaders in Germany would intensify preventive measures in schools...