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...Last week Heinz U.S.A. announced that it has recalled 12,000 cases of its strained vegetable-and-ham baby food after the discovery of bits of rubber in several jars. The company said the recall began about three weeks ago but was not announced publicly because the little black specks were harmless. Spokesman Harry Carroll said the particles "may have come in with one of the ingredients" but did not alter the product's "food grade...
...speed," the diminutive eighth-grader advises Aki Shimizuishi. "Take your time, get the notes, know where they are, and then get the beat." Aki, 17, looks down at the short alto drums, which are cut from large oil containers. He strikes a few of the notes with thin, rubber-tipped metal mallets and winces when the tone doesn't sound quite right. "It is tough just getting the letters straight," he says as he tries to play the first bar of When the Saints Go Marchin' In. A number of his classmates and a few of his teachers...
Next year, Forsgard says she will return to botany to work on Genus Hevea, the type of plant from which we get 98 percent of our natural rubber...
Gary Anctil, a Gap employee who was present when the flood began, said the occupants of the floor above were fixing their air conditioning system when a pipe burst. John Ciancio, the Coop's assistant operations manager, said that while a rubber hose came off the air conditioning unit, he was not sure whether anyone had been working on the appliance...
...still, blue morning air 150 ft. above the town of Fort Lupton, Colo., two men float in a hot-air balloon. One lashes a strong rubber cord to the midsection of the other, Fred Kaemerer, 23, a Denver engineer, who grimaces like a condemned man. When the countdown rings out -- "Three! Two! One!" -- Kaemerer swan-dives headfirst over the edge of the gondola. Although it lasts only seconds, the 60 m.p.h. plunge seems to take forever. But the real kick is yet to come. Just as Kaemerer hurtles to within a few feet of the earth and a terrifying impact...