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Senate Was Correct Not to Rubber Stamp Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
...then, the United States Senate should not be in the business of rubber-stamping flawed agreements simply because the prevailing winds of international opinion are blowing in the same direction...
...name Greenpeace immediately conjures up images of scruffy activists blocking railroad tracks to stop nuclear-waste shipments or challenging whaling ships in rubber rafts. So it's surprising to find in the ranks of this radical green group a button-down business tycoon named Malcolm Walker, who heads Iceland, a British retail food chain with 760 stores and annual revenues of $2.7 billion. But Walker, 53, whose personal fortune of $40 million puts him on the British "Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit...
...hand got stuck and pinched into the mechanism of the rubber-rolling machinery, which caused me to lose two fingers on my right hand and caused me to become disabled," he said...
...technology may have a solution. An upstart company called FieldTurf, in alliance with sports monolith Nike, has developed a surface that more closely resembles the texture and response of grass. It is made of synthetic blades and is held up by an artificial dirt composed of silica and rubber that can be made of recycled running shoes. The University of Nebraska recently installed the surface after a year in which 40 football players sustained injuries on AstroTurf. "It is the closest thing to natural grass I've seen," says John Ingram, the Cornhuskers' director of athletic facilities. "This year...