Word: plasticities
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...Baron eventually came up with the more palatable Sipahh. Since launching them in late 2005, he's sold more than 500 million of the plastic straws, which are filled with flavor beads that dissolve when milk is sucked - or sipped - through them. End to end, he boasts, the straws would go twice around the world. But it's not far enough. Baron believes he can more than double his sales by putting beads of bacteria inside the straws...
...include ant-free dog bowls and shop shelving systems, says he always saw the straw as a system for delivering more than flavor. He started tinkering with the idea in 1996, after wondering why flavored milk cost so much more than the plain variety. He tried using a fat plastic straw from McDonald's and a filter made from one of his daughter's school stockings. That didn't work. He soon designed a new type of conical filter that wouldn't clog, and figured out how to create flavor beads by making a tiny core and gradually adding material...
...World Toilet Summit and Expo is like the Star Trek Convention of the waste management and sanitation world. Toilets on show run the gamut from a cardboard box complete with a hole, plastic bag and pouch of waterless magic pathogen-busting dust ($50), to a high-tech 'uber-toilet,' featuring an in-seat warmer/cooler, male and female water jets, an in-bowl light (why, oh why?) and a USB port so you can connect your mp3 player for your soothing tune of choice...
...Meanwhile, outside thousands of protesters had hit the streets near the meeting, shouting "Step down, Ma Ying-jeou!", throwing plastic bottles and rocks, and wearing yellow head and neck bands that read "Taiwan is My Country." The opposition Democratic Progressive Party, wary of any moves to draw closer to China, has staged protests throughout Chen's visit. Some 7000 police have been deployed to maintain order, and a couple of protestors have been injured in the chaos. On Wednesday, hundreds surrounded the hotel where Chen was dining and refused to disperse until 2AM, when Chen could finally leave. "The protests...
...enough to say you have to be good; everybody does that for about a week and then runs back to their old habits. Eventually necessity forces a change. That will happen when oil is so expensive that you can no longer afford to use it to make plastic bags out of it. And instead of that, we will use it for things we really need...