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...When Project ADAPT began, rather than scrap our existing system and all our experience, we adapted our system to Project ADAPT. As a result, we now have access to a wider variety of electron transactions and data...
...Scrap, Not Waste
Your report on campaign contributions [BIG MONEY & POLITICS, Feb. 7] mentioned changes in the Superfund law that relieved scrap-material dealers of liability at toxic-waste sites. The intent of Congress in passing Superfund legislation was to clean up contaminated waste sites and to promote, not harm, the recycling industry. Scrap materials are not waste. They are recyclable. But for more than 10 years, it has been necessary for those in the recyclable-scrap business to fight to have them correctly labeled not as waste but as reusable materials. The law you referred to was supported by 69 Senate...
...Ryman had signed a glass artist's palette, complete with dried patches of mixed paint, and wrapped it in the linen he used to stretch his canvases. LeWitt enclosed a tiny white cube, in which was a scrap of paper with ambiguous instructions: "a line, not straight, corner to corner." Artschwager created within the frame of steel a wooden box that opened onto ever smaller boxes. Buren avoided the responsibility of prediction altogether and had given his box to a friend to fill. Inside, the other artist had lined the box with Buren's signature red-and-white stripes...
...leading wonk. As chairman of the house's public-education committee, the Democrat is a longtime player on the issue closest to Bush's heart, education reform, which had been under way in Texas for a decade by the time Bush ran. In 1993, Sadler led the fight to scrap the state's education code, and during Bush's first term, Sadler and others were writing the new code. Sadler says Bush jumped into the reform effort immediately and to great effect."His role in the rewrite was significant," says Sadler. "He met weekly with me at first...