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...destination of much of Beijing's recyclable scrap is Dongxiaokou village, on the capital's northern outskirts, where 700 families work on sorting and preparing it for a second life. The yards of Dongxiaokou are filled with stacks of old radiators, piles of cardboard, old tires and inner tubes, mounds of glass smashed into tiny shards, nests of tangled rebar and cooking-oil jugs looped together with string. A mountain of plastic bottles more than two stories tall looms over the squat brick buildings where recyclers live and work. "Somewhere in there is a bottle you used," says a woman...
...scanners, and many voters haphazardly filled in the intended ovals, didn't do so at all or otherwise improperly marked their ballots.) Thousands of party representatives will literally be peering over the officials' shoulders to challenge any apparent discrepancy. By law, officials must place challenged ballots in a separate pile for consideration by the State Canvassing Board. Secretary of state Mark Ritchie chairs the five-member board, which also includes two Minnesota Supreme Court Justices and two Ramsey County District Court judges...
...trash,” said Robert Gogan, manager of recycling & waste services in Facilities Maintenance Operations who worked with REPs—a branch of the Harvard Office for Sustainability—to coordinate Mt. Trashmore. The heap had a 12-foot pole, indicating what the height of the pile would be without recycling. There were also various signs surrounding the trash with recycling tidbits, such as the fact that a ton of trash costs Harvard $87 to remove, compared to $20 for a recycled ton. REP volunteers were on site from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. to talk...
...months, General Motors had been telling everyone who would listen that bankruptcy was not an option. It had a $30 billion cash pile and plans to restructure the company as the economy rebounded and 2007 U.S. auto sales topped 16 million units...
...What is] troubling...is that Muslim countries tend to do much much worse” in the rankings,” Hausmann said. “This is not true for all Muslim countries, but at the bottom of the pile you have Pakistan, you have Yemen, and you have Saudi Arabia...because they have very restrictive legislation on what women...