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Some managers say that they support the legislation, maintaining that the inconveniences they suffer area a worthy price to pay for the cuts in litter and the resource savings. They often complain, however, because they feel that a loophole in the law lets distributors get away with disposing the used containers, rather than recycling them...
...political issue in U.S. history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society. Indeed, there are moments today-amid outlaw litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy-when it seems as though the scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. Already, Riesman says, the ethic...
...size achieved by each mouse was dependent on how many copies of the rat gene it happened, by chance, to have received. One mouse with 20 copies had 800 times the normal level of growth hormone in its blood. It grew to be almost twice the size of litter mates that had no copies of the rat gene...
...Right now I have the feeling of late," said Martins last week, propped up on a litter of pillows to support his aching back, recently reinjured in class. The heavy work on On Your Toes, with Natalia Makarova and George de la Pena, is over now, but adjustments go on in Washington. In New York, there are the endless details of running a company: "I will finish my dancing career in a year or two," he says. "Then I'll throw those little slippers out the window! I have two movie offers that I haven't absolutely turned...
...bottle bills in Arizona, California, Colorado and Washington State [Nov. 15] is a victory for consumers. If passed, the legislation would have forced the public to pay much higher prices because of the slobs in our society. At best, the law could have eliminated only 21% of the litter, leaving 79% still lying along the roadsides and scattered in the parks...