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...Some junk needs to be handled delicately, which doesn't routinely happen in India. The coast of Gujarat state in western India is the world's biggest naval graveyard, but many of the ships have specialized in carrying poisonous materials. According to the government, about 12,500 tons of toxic waste end up in the Arabian Sea each year. In the past few years, India has insourced the disposal of old computers, which contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and bromides. The country is also the biggest single importer of mercury-contaminated industrial waste...
...halls." Ashil got to school a year ago as a featherweight size 1. She now fits "snugly" into a size 3, she says. Say hello to the "freshman 15": the unwanted pounds many students pack on during their first year of college. The extra pounds--usually the result of junk-food vending machines, binge drinking, buffet-style dining and the loss of culinary parental guidance--have become for many an expected part of the college experience...
...nation's middle and high schoolers are subjected to a daily news program called Channel One, which is mandatory viewing. If your school has signed on for this, it's a 10-minute broadcast, plus two minutes of overt advertising. The products they advertise tend to be junk food, violent movies--a questionable set of products. There are schools that accept advertising on their buses, on their walls...
Somewhere along the line, your e-mail In box started to look like your real mailbox, full of unwanted ads and "free" offers that somehow aren't. New spam- filtering software may have helped cut back on the lewdness, but those programs sometimes drop good friends in the junk folder. DigiPortal's ChoiceMail ($40 at digiportal.com a scaled-down free version is also available) gets around that problem by checking IDs at the door to your In box. If the message is from someone already in your address book, the mail goes through, but if it's from an unknown...
...that has changed. Two of the biggest, megabillion-dollar entertainment franchises in the world, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, come from fantasy novels. A group of outrageously talented writers is busy rescuing fantasy from under a mountain of New Age junk, collectible card games and heavy-metal album covers: J.K. Rowling, of course, but also Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, China Mieville and George R.R. Martin. Now a fortysomething silver-haired British book editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera...