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...development was touted as the breakthrough of the decade in the baby-care industry: superabsorbency in a thinner diaper. Procter & Gamble successfully test-marketed a diaper containing wood-pulp fluff and gel materials in 1984 and soon afterward brought Ultra Pampers on the market. Before long, Kimberly- Clark introduced a competing product, Huggies Supertrim. Last week both types of diapers were on display in a federal court in Charleston, S.C., where K-C is being sued for allegedly violating P&G's patent on its superabsorbency design...
...certainly pays to recycle. From 100,000 tons of typical Japanese garbage comes enough wood pulp to make a roll of toilet paper that would wrap around the earth ten times...
Nowhere are the consequences of unchecked industrialization more obvious than in Siberia's Lake Baikal basin. Nearly 30 years ago, Minlesbumprom (the Ministry of Timber, Pulp and Paper, and Wood Processing Industry) erected the Baikalsh pulp factory on the shores of this majestic body of crystal-clear water. The crescent-shaped lake holds 80% of the country's fresh water and 20% of the world's supply. Three-fourths of the lake's 2,500 fish and plant species, including the Baikal nerpa, a fresh-water seal, are unknown anywhere else in the world...
...that is under assault. Currently, the pulp factory produces 200,000 tons of cellulose fibers a year, and its effluent, discharged directed into the lake, has created a polluted zone 23 miles wide. Clouds of yellowish smoke belching from the factory's smokestacks have settled over 770 sq. mi. of Siberian wilderness and have killed an estimated 86,000 fir trees...
...pulp fiction goes, Karen Carpenter is quite enjoyable. Cynthia Gibb (who lip-syncs Karen's syrupy hits like Close to You) and Mitchell Anderson are convincing as the sister-brother act. Director Joseph Sargent traces their rise to fame in brisk if superficial strokes. The film (which lists Richard Carpenter as executive producer) is blunt about the troubles the young stars faced: overprotective, underaffectionate parents (Louise Fletcher, Peter Michael Goetz), Richard's drug problems, Karen's growing obsession with losing weight. The scrubbed duo make drug abuse look positively wholesome, but the movie deftly grafts the morbid thrills...