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...which allows them to be covered with yummy carcinogenic ash. They are perhaps the driest things I have ever eaten--and as a child I would often be caught eating sand at the beach. "Oh Lordy, that's dry. It sucks the tissues out of your mouth," says retired plant ecologist Jack Taylor, after putting up a good fight with...
...Universal for another 15 years" - and two days later he resigns. But these are trifles - even I, at times, intend to make love all night but last only 15 minutes. • That one mustn't listen to the smooth-talkers. The next time someone says, 'I'm going to plant a tree,' he'll have to have a shovel in his hand before I believe him. With his iron-clad resume, VIP-packed address book and the balls of a drunken woman, Messier passed himself off as a shrewd industrialist when he was in fact at very best a cold...
...site, "a lot of it was bad news, but it made us feel truly part of the team." To keep up morale, Fields instituted flexible hours, on-site day care and time off to care for a family member. Once a month he would have lunch with plant workers to solicit suggestions for improvements...
...Economic Advancement Foundation), a nonprofit organization established by the North Carolina General Assembly to distribute half the state's settlement revenues, spent $15,000 for a tobacco-history video. Perhaps more egregiously, it granted rural Nash County $400,000 for water and sewer engineering to attract a tobacco-processing plant. "The money is going in a circle here," says Don Carrington, vice president of the John Locke Foundation, a state-government watchdog group...
Proponents of the plan say the water and sewer improvements will expand service along a five-mile undeveloped stretch, and the plant will bring 1,100 jobs to a region where unemployment is above 10%. "This is a perfectly allowable use of the funds," says John Gessaman, president of the economic-development corporation that applied for the grant. It may be perfectly legal, but then again, so is smoking...