Word: plasticizers
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Food still sits on the shelves. Bales of unused plastic bags hang from their dispensers, awaiting purchases to fill them. The cash registers' liquid crystal displays are still lit--but instead of recording the prices of milk and pasta salad, they read "closed...
...bottom line is that those plastic bags at the end of the checkout counter will never be filled with groceries. Customers will no longer sit at the store's granite counter, gazing out the window onto Mass. Ave. as they eat their gourmet lunches...
After their arrest, the two say they were tortured by members of the military who applied electric shocks to all parts of their bodies and beaten with batons and fists. Their heads were wrapped in plastic bags and then put in water until they began suffocating...
...with an M-16 rifle and 9-mm pistol to guard his spread against trespassers. By his count, Barnett has corralled hundreds of aliens and marched them to the border patrol since last year. "It's a jungle out here," says the cattleman, trudging through mesquite fields littered with plastic jugs and soiled diapers left by illegals. Larry Vance, a utility-company technician, climbs a 30-ft.-high watchtower in his backyard to spot aliens crossing his 20 acres. Says he: "You've got to understand that this is an invasion...
...When I first read the screenplay, I read the monologue about the beauty of a plastic bag blowing in the wind: "There is so much beauty in the world, you feel like you can't take...