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Although Bar Am felt that he had broken no law, especially as he had been at the protest for less than five minutes, the threat of plastic or rubber bullets resulted in very real fear. The four students were released after spending a night in jail and with misdemeanor charges filed against them...
...third and final outbreak occurred in Kirkland House in early November. In an attempt to isolate the spread of the infection, the College University officials decided to ban all interhouse dining, remove possible carrier foods from salad bars, provide only plastic utensils in certain Houses and suspend the hiring of all temporary employees in the dining halls...
...goodbye to 1960S-style molded plastic and Plexiglas. For contemporary home-furnishings designers these days, it's all about natural materials...
...latest bit of marketing wizardry to hit American sweetshops: sour green tamarind-flavored Shrek candies. She pops off the Shrek-shaped cap on a Crazy Hair confection and, after some initial befuddlement (of a kind no one under 12 would suffer), turns a dial on the bottom of the plastic tube. Sticky strands of chartreuse goo extrude through a nozzle and "grow" upward in apparent defiance of gravity. "Wow!" says Nestle, who has a deep appreciation for such ingenuity. She plunges in with a taste test. "Yech! So sour!" she complains. "And it sticks to your hands." Popping...
...lance documentarian Don North. He was in Iraq helping rebuild its TV service when he heard of the men and says he used $100,000 of his son's college funds to find and film them. North, with help from a newsman in Houston, recruited Dr. Joe Agris, a plastic surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital, to operate on the men free of charge. The Department of Homeland Security waived visa requirements, and Continental Airlines agreed to fly them to Houston. The U.S. branch of the German prosthetics firm Otto Bock HealthCare donated seven prosthetic hands equipped with state...