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...treaty failed to address the discharge of ordinary garbage, which contains large quantities of plastic items. Ten states are trying to do their part; they have passed legislation requiring that six-pack yokes be made of treated plastic that degrades rapidly in sunlight. Nonetheless, concludes Zoologist Carr: "This junk is growing in abundance year by year. It is just getting outrageous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Perils of Plastic Pollution | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...auditioned for The Breakfast Club but was turned down, and since then has avoided most films that she calls "teen junk." The extravagant praise she has heard for Smooth Talk makes her uneasy, and she has tried to deflate expectations for her next role, an inquisitive girl next door who gets involved in a murder mystery, in the thriller Blue Velvet, to be released in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...over 30--and whose punk-flapper fashion sense is imitated by thousands of "Ringlets," her very own girl groupies. They pay tribute by dyeing their hair orange (as she does, from her natural dark reddish brown), smearing lipstick from nose to chin and dressing in Molly's unique designer-junk shop couture. Her normality makes her something more resonant than this month's Madonna. Molly Ringwald is both hip enough to be the style setter of Right Now and traditional enough to be any American teen of the past 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...Firm's headquarters. Magnus' operations take him to Vienna, Prague and Washington, where he concludes that "no country was ever easier to spy on . . . no nation so open-hearted with its secrets, so quick to air them, share them, confide them, or consign them too early to the junk heap of planned American obsolescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Need some easy money? How about $500 for six afternoons of sleeping in your bedroom, listening to music, and eating junk food? And don't forget about filling out those questionaires every hour which assess the "mood-altering effects" of the three pills you swallowed...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: Donating Your Body for Scientific Research | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

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