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...someone figuring out the process to reverse the process where we make petroleum into plastic, to make all this throwaway plastic back into petroleum? I have been to the slums of Mumbai where they recycle plastic as plastic. Wouldn't be better to turn it back into petroleum? Stephen M. Mattox, PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO...
...millennial myself, I'm disappointed how frequently I hear of "the youth" wasting their days in front of social-networking sites or hanging onto their phones. Few people ever consider the interconnected and networked mass we represent. While we may never be able to help stop an unjust war like our parents did before us, the overwhelming role the youth played in electing a candidate as revolutionary as President Obama is indicative of how powerful we have become. We are the politicians, the journalists and the soldiers of the future but we have already begun to play our role. Luke...
...ways. Is that difference just reflective of your different personalities? Or is it also that it's a different time? Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras. I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice. One of the reasons he went...
Lamott has written so much about Sam in her nonfiction--her breakthrough book was 1993's Operating Instructions, a memoir about her first chaotic year of single motherhood--that fans pepper her with questions about him at readings "until I'm like, 'Enough about Sam,'" she jokes. As insatiable as the interest is, she is protective of his life. "People feel like they know me and Sam," she says, but "they know what I have chosen to share with them...
...Even until recently, the M-800 was a first car to many Indians. Indu Bhandari, a mother of two, says when she and her husband wanted to buy their first car in 2003, M-800 was the inevitable choice. But with the introduction of snazzier models from domestic and international car makers, the M-800 has been losing its sheen over the past few years. As Bhandari says, when her parents bought their M-800 in the 80s, people were awed. By the time she bought hers, it was looked down upon - good as a first car, but nothing more...