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...huggers" and "crazy," but Styers and his friends persisted. They did their homework, figuring the cost of recycling schemes. They tipped off the local media. And they repeated their protest every Wednesday. In March they took their appeal to the school board, topping it off with a well-rehearsed pitch for recycling Styrofoam. Their determination paid off. Starting this month, used lunchware from three Thomasville schools will be collected in plastic bags, shipped to Brooklyn and turned into rulers, insulation board and reusable lunch trays...
...some extent, blaming advertisers for selling products that society has been unable to control by other means is like shooting the messenger. Parents and educators should bear considerable responsibility for instilling sensible notions of behavior. But marketers of alcohol and tobacco have been so effective in making their pitch that society feels the voices must be toned down and balanced. Other states are likely to follow California's lead, multiplying the number of sophisticated challenges to commercial pitches for alcohol and cigarettes. At the same time, other alcohol producers may follow Anheuser-Busch's lead, devoting substantial resources to promoting...
...pitch travels to the plate in less than a second. Then everyone hangs out for an eternity. During this time, the pitcher rubs the ball, the batter adjusts his jock, the manager spits tobacco on his shoes, the batboy sprints across the field for no apparent reason, the owner sells a racetrack, the designated hitter does a line of coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player...
...first contest, Fromholz pitched a scoreless six innings before yielding five runs in the seventh on a combination of hits and errors. Meanwhile, Mizasko was pitching her sparkling one-hitter to pick up the win, striking out 11 while walking two. The Crimson managed to chalk up a run in the contest on three walks and a wild pitch, but Johnson's base hit was the only noise Harvard's bats made...
...plate came Co-Captain Beth Reilly, whose two hits in the first game accounted for half of the team's total. On the second pitch to the junior thirdbaseman, Donaldson took off for second and was gunned down by Hofstra catcher Beth Gaudet, eliminating the tying run from the basepaths...