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...wealthy schools with generous alumni, the issue boils down to setting priorities for fund-raising dollars. Most contributors don't care where their dollars go within the different faculties. Some of the larger ones do. In this case, the amounts involved are so low that big contributors' pet projects needn't be discouraged. But in the future, deans should not be afraid to encourage these alumni to contribute not to flashy projects but to basic, day-to-day budgets and student services...
...other material, less than 2% of waste plastic gets recycled. Largely this is because it is cumbersome and expensive to separate the seven basic types and relatively cheap simply to manufacture virgin plastics. Wellman Inc., of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, has emerged as a leader in recycling so-called PET bottles, the most common clear plastic containers for liquid, turning discarded ones into furniture textiles, tennis * balls, electrical equipment and yarn for polyester carpet. The Coca-Cola Co. services major markets nationwide with two-liter bottles made of 25% recycled PET plastic...
...inanimate objects. Nor could she assign physical attributes to animals -- she could not, for example, answer the question "What color is an elephant?" Yet she could answer nonphysical questions, about whether a given animal lived on land or in the sea, or whether it was normally kept as a pet. And when shown a picture of, say, a lion with a horse's head, she could tell right away that the two didn't match...
...Just by having caught Fatal Attraction, Allie Jones (Bridget Fonda) in Single White Female could have avoided a lot of the grief she suffers at the hands of her roommate-from-hell Hedy (Jennifer Jason Leigh). If Hedy's possessive rages hadn't given Allie a hint, the dead pet would have. And in Raising Cain, none of the cops has seen Psycho. Otherwise they might have been suspicious of that tall creature in a cheap shoulder-length wig sneaking out of the motel, while all homicide was breaking loose...
...prince's girls, not for their potential as royals but "to see how much a threat they posed to her own relationship." When the naive Diana said she didn't enjoy hunting, Camilla, a horsewoman, brightened at once. Then there was the discovery of Fred and Gladys -- the pet code names by which Charles and Camilla communicated -- gifts, flowers, notes...