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...issues are among the six tons of newspaper we truck off campus for recycling. However, recovering discarded paper is only half the job of recycling. The other half is buying recycled. Unless consumers express a purchasing preference for products made from recycled paper, backlogs of post-consumer paper will pile up in dealers' yards. Because demand for products made from recycled newspaper hasn't caught up with the supply, Harvard's Facilities Maintenance must pay its waste paper hauler $35 per ton to take newspaper...
...here, in Boston, at theFourteenth Annual All-Breed Cat Show at theMariott Copley Place. The ceiling seems too lowfor the 20,000 square feet of floor space, and thesquare columns at 30 foot intervals obscure theview--making the space seems smaller than it is.Carpeted in brown pile that doesn't show stains,the flourescent-lit hall holds some 200 cats withas many breeders, two dozen vendors, a handful oftelevision people, four judges, and more than1,000 spectators. The crowd is almost exclusivelywhite, with only one or two Black couples. Thereare few children: it is like a 4-H show forgrown...
...court decree, threatened ominously to bring the great edifice down. The media, of course, was more than willing to give the Times a taste of its own medicine and happily engaged in a feeding frenzy off the debris which floated to the top of the Times's massive pile of dirty laundry. One memo from a boss asked for a potential female employee's "vital statistics . . . and her picture in a bikini." The plaintiffs had also accumulated several testimonies from women who remembered male editors saying everything from "no woman will ever be an editor of The New York Times...
...first glance, this imbroglio seems altogether annoying, as though the author has managed to gather up every PC gripe, put it in a pile, shove it in your face and then expect you to feel guilty. But in fact, the novel has the opposite effect. Franzen addresses the issues of the nineties with a sense of humor and honesty that sharpens interest, awareness and concern. He is able to articulate successfully sex and societal concerns. He craftily maneuvers his voice and his rich characters under your skin...
Recently, the science fiction movie has become as dry and uninspired as the miserable futuristic landscape which serves as its inevitable setting. The Runnning Man, Terminator, and now Freejack all imagine an apocalyptic world which has been reduced, essentially, to a smoldering pile of ashes. Nuclear war and atmospheric decay are all in the cards and are all due to some form of human excess, be it greed or ambition...