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...with contributions from more than 120 countries, the exhibition, which is held in a different city every five years, was also a multinational take on what the future might be, with innovations ranging from the practical to the preposterous. Utensils at the food court were made of biodegradable plastic, and electricity was generated by an eco-friendly onsite system (even the garbage was used for fuel). And while the theme in Aichi was Nature's Wisdom, many of the 22 million visitors who flocked to the expo between March and September met robots that could sing, subtract or speak four...
...more people are susceptible to illness,” said CHI representative Meredith K. Loth ’09, who was handing out kits in Dunster’s dining hall yesterday. “People don’t tend to bundle up adequately.” The plastic bag kits, which were assembled with funding from the University Health Services (UHS), contain a variety of items, including hand sanitizer, tissues, packets of tea, salt for gargling, and a disposable thermometer. The packets also include flyers with cold and flu remedies and prevention techniques, such as placing a bowl...
They shut down the Pepsi machines in the University of Portland cafeteria the other day. The plastic bottles of Hunt's Ketchup disappeared. Sugar was replaced with honey from a neighborhood beekeeper. And everything else on the lunch menu, from soup (lentil) to nuts (hazel), was locally grown, baked, milked and mixed. The shrimp was harvested in nearby Netarts Bay, not in Thailand; the herbs were gathered in adjacent Clackamas County, not in California; the chicken was pastured on fields outside Eugene, not imported from the Midwest's vast factory farms. "It's awesome," said Alex Samuels, 19, a freshman...
...days of the ubiquitous plastic bag are numbered--at least in San Francisco. With residents each year using upwards of 50 million of the flimsy throwaways, which routinely clog sewer drains and kill marine life, city officials last week struck a deal with grocery chains to give shoppers 10 million fewer bags by the end of 2006. And how did the city get grocers to agree to kick in $100,000 for the program? By first proposing a tax of 17?...
...leader of a 10-person bombmaking cell. Fox Company hits two "dry" houses before they find Saleh, a burly, bearded man in a grimy dishdasha. "I am a teacher! I am a teacher!" he protests as the Marines march him out into the courtyard, bind his hands with plastic ties and blindfold him. The Marines order his four young sons to kneel and face the wall as punishment for cracking wise when the troops entered the house. As Saleh is bundled into a waiting truck and taken to a detention facility, Lance Corporal John Hammar, 20, spots...