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...people injured. The earthquake destroyed 34,410 homes, leaving more than 100,000 people homeless. The institute announced on Sunday that it no longer expected to find any more survivors. "We can't take much more of this," says Delia Alvarez, who has just bolted out of a plastic chair as another tremor - there have been more than 500 aftershocks - shakes the rubble of what used to be her house and convenience store...
...conclusion of at least 30 hours of classroom instruction, six hours of behind-the-wheel training, and at least 25 hours of supervised driving, young Illinoisians are allowed to take the state’s driving test. The rewards for our labors are a plastic card that reminds us we are not yet 21, and perhaps permission to use the family station wagon to drive to school...
Surveying over 350 people—ranging from plastic surgeons to facially disfigured patients—Barker said that his research has determined that most people are in favor of the procedures, despite their high-risk nature...
...pollution of the skies is matched by the trash left underfoot. Fewer than a quarter of plastic bottles are recycled, leaving 2 billion lbs. (900 million kg) a year to clog landfills. Worst of all, the migration to bottled water fosters a perception that tap water isn't safe or necessary. That's dangerous at a time when aging public-water systems need investment, particularly as global warming increases the incidence of drought. Says Gigi Kellett, director of the Think Outside the Bottle campaign for the watchdog group Corporate Accountability International: "An entire generation is growing up thinking they have...
...altogether; bottled water provides an essential stopgap when public water really isn't safe. Like almost any other product, it can be made greener. Icelandic Water, for example, uses clean geothermal and hydropower energy to power its bottling plant. And the industry says it's reduced the amount of plastic in bottles 40% over the past five years. But if we're really going to cut the environmental cost of bottled water, the responsibility lies with consumers. It may be hard to do without the car--a much bigger source of CO2 than bottled water--and uncomfortable to forgo...