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...Brazil Central Bank officials are going to issue a new 10-real bill made from a special type of tough, polymer plastic. Although the bills are slippery and hard to fold, their life expectancy is four times the current longevity of paper notes, which...
...It’s in the Bag: Tuesday/Thursday Binder, Monday/ Wednesday/Friday Binder, Foreign Cultures sourcebook, Walkman, workout clothes, pencils-pens-spare change-Harvard ID card (all in appropriate compartments), two apples, plastic silverware set, checkbook, overdue library books, copy of Grisholm’s latest novel, peanut butter crackers from seventh grade, bottle of Motrin...
...friendly to hockey. We had no local team—minor league, high school or otherwise. The ponds didn’t freeze in the winter and the nearest rink was an hour’s drive away. The local sporting good store had no hockey equipment, save little plastic hockey sticks marketed at the pre-school crowd. And so, during the summers and warm winters, we settled for roller hockey—a slow, clunky substitute that always ended prematurely after our only ball fell into the rain gutter. To the neighborhood kids, we were heroes; to everyone else...
...good place to start would be to give albatrosses a future with more food and less plastic trash to swallow. A U.N. marine-pollution treaty makes dumping plastics illegal, but policing at sea is impractical. Nonetheless, ships could be required to carry up-to-date equipment for handling garbage and storing liquid waste that might otherwise be dumped into the water. Routine discharges put more oil into the sea than major spills...
Amory Lovins wants the world to run right. He wants everyone to use resources more wisely and live in real communities rather than subdivisions. Above all, he wants us to drive plastic cars that he calls "computers on wheels." Car companies are not laughing...