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Long before going green was an international pastime, when the only corporate responsibility was to the bottom line, a small store opened in Brighton, England, selling homemade moisturizers and hair-care products packaged in plastic urine-sample jars. The cosmetics were all-natural, the containers were reusable and the ethos - creating products that were as good for the earth as they were for your skin - was still considered radical, the kind of thing only hippies cared about. But when Anita Roddick opened The Body Shop in 1976, she wasn't thinking about changing the world, just supporting her family while...
...injury. The third-year Bill suffered a fracture and disclocation of his spine, in which the C3 and C4 vertebrae in his spinal cord were telescoped when he went in to tackle the Broncos' Domenik Hixon on a kickoff return. Everett's helmeted head made contact with the hard plastic of Hixon's shoulder pad, and he immediately dropped to the ground, his spinal cord shocked by the impact. "He had a compressive load to his spine, and the spine doesn't handle those kinds of loads very well," says Dr. Joseph Kowalski, director of the Spine Center at Erie...
...watching someone else do it, figuring out someone else's state of mind from their actions, or using nonverbal communication to explain or understand how to find something - the kids made monkeys of the apes. In one test, for example, researchers showed both groups how to open up a plastic tube to get at a treat. The children learned by watching, and opened it as the adults did. The apes tended to just chew the tube open. In another, researchers would hide the treat while the test subjects were present. Then the subjects would have to find it, with...
...drank Boisset's wines, and the Yellow Jersey sauvignon blanc, at $15, wasn't bad. In fact, I felt, oddly, snobbishly worldly pouring it from a plastic bottle. It was as if I were saying, I drink so much wine that I don't have to pretend that this slightly flat grapefruit explosion I'm going to down with leftovers is special. Plus, I tend to drop things a lot when I drink...
Energy doesn't grow on trees. That is why scientists are hard at work trying to find alternative sources of fuel. On Aug. 23, Sony announced its green-battery prototype, which is made out of a vegetable-based plastic and is powered by converting sugar into electricity. "We need to always be thinking green," says Derek Lovley, a UMass-Amherst microbiologist who does his part by researching mud-microbe batteries. Other sources tapped into...