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...color. Relief material piled up but was not distributed. (Some ended up in Gujarat after its devastating earthquake 15 months later.) The greatest crime of all: officials responsible for relief, after failing in their jobs, were allegedly found swindling the state treasury. According to the author, they overpaid for plastic sheets for shelter and took a cut from the dealers...
...simplest. Witness the iBook, Apple's consumer-priced laptop, which underwent a profound and much lauded transformation last week. Intended as a kind of portable iMac, the two-year-old iBook started life as a bulky, gaudy rubberized clamshell that barely fit into backpacks, with a carry-case plastic handle and choice of colors that critics--yours truly included--derided as "Barbie-like...
...linked to connective-tissue disorders--the latest consensus is that they aren't--scientists raise a new concern. A 13-year study suggests that women with implants may be three times as likely to die of lung cancer and twice as likely to die of brain cancer as other plastic-surgery patients. Researchers can't explain their findings, but they know that it doesn't make a difference whether the implants are made of silicone or saline...
...LePore told the Washington Post that some of her colleagues are expecting to haul in $10 million, though she thinks that's a bit optimistic for briefcase-sized plastic apparati that cost...
...care how many Survivors you have," Colby said, "you'll never be able to predict the winner." And I don't care how unabashedly plastic the Live in the CBS Studio Tribal Council finale was - we'll forgive almost anything as long as it preserves the suspense...