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...increasingly savvy group of green-minded consumers in the U.S. for decades. But most of the more commercially available luxury brands?those sold at a mall near you?have all but ignored environmentalists' calls for them to reduce solid waste and energy consumption and search for more renewable resources???until now. Ecologically minded brands like Clarins, which is French, or Aveda and Origins and their corporate owner, the Estée Lauder Cos., continue to innovate, while other, more conventional beauty companies like Lancôme, Kiehl's Since 1851 and Paul Mitchell are finding philanthropic ways to lessen their impact...
...have been widely exaggerated. The U.S. is more self-critical than any other nation; it is also more resilient than most. The U.S. has not suddenly turned into a second-rate power, or even (as is sometimes suggested) into just another big power. It remains unique. It has immense resources???physical, intellectual, spiritual?which are not being fully or rightly used...
...placed the Shah on the throne?that is, the Allies appointed him [in 1941] after ousting his father Reza Khan [who was] a British stooge. The U.S. Government consistently helped him stay in power in the face of our people's opposition to him. The Shah squandered all our resources???our national dignity, our natural assets, the talents of our youths and everything else we had. Obviously, Iranians cannot have a good view of the U.S. Government. And recently our people discovered that the Administration had turned its so-called embassy into a base for espionage and conspiracy against Iran...
Futurists add one final somber thought: The world's oil will eventually run out and be replaced by something else. The seas?and their resources???are irreplaceable...
Although metropolitan-area school integration is a new idea, it is far from unknown. Many Southern districts, including Miami, Nashville and Mobile, already bus between center cities and suburban areas. Resistance to metropolitan plans is often based on fear that the suburbs will have to share their economic resources???but that may be forced upon them by another potentially far-reaching court decision...