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Recycling has another appeal to companies that use plastic: it is relatively cheap. Second-generation plastic costs 40 cents per lb., about 20 cents less than new, pure plastic. "Recycling is simply a good business opportunity," says Du Pont spokesman Paul Wyche...
...Chephren have accumulated in piles on its lower levels. In the pyramid of Cheops, encrustations of salt, left by the evaporation of brackish groundwater, have eaten away at the walls of the burial chamber. The Sphinx, a few hundred feet away from the pyramids, has lost a 600-lb. chunk from its right shoulder, and the neck is so weak that the statue's massive head is in danger of falling...
Koop was expected to be a figurehead like most Surgeons General, with little authority and few staff or duties, but he quickly shook things up. He insisted that the commissioned corps of public-health officers wear uniforms. Then the 6-ft. 1-in., 210-lb. doctor, whose taste for red meat and martinis keeps him from losing his paunch, pronounced the U.S. a country of fatsoes who would have to give up cholesterol in favor of fiber. When Koop found out that the tobacco companies had fought hardest over the years against the Government's calling nicotine addictive, he stated...
...brew of human hair, a goat's head and chicken parts. After arresting and questioning four suspects, the Mexican police pieced together a horrific tale of a voodoo-practicing cult of drug smugglers who believed that orgies of human sacrifice would win satanic protection for its 2,000-lb.-a-week marijuana-running operation to the U.S. "They felt that all the killing would draw a protective shield around them," observed Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox. "It was religious craziness...
...kitchen production with towels stuffed under the door to contain the pungent odor of the process. This was a major manufacturing operation disguised as a beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar...