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Each year the Treasury Department spends $318 million to shred worn-out dollar bills and replace them with fresh ones. New Mexico Republican Senator Pete Domenici thinks he has a better, if not new, idea. He has introduced a bill to create a dollar coin, stamped mainly out of copper (which, not coincidentally, is plentiful in his state). He predicts the coins will drive paper dollars out of circulation because they can be used so readily in vending machines. Moreover, they will last 20 years, vs. a life-span of only 18 months for paper bills...
...Four years of Harvard is just enough time for Harvard to make decent people stress fiends and anal animals--even in such a way that they actually believe Harvard has made them good students. It's important to get out after four years with that shred of a chance to salvage your original personality and humanness...
...trash." Wolmer hopes to include newspapers; at the moment, however, most recycling plants in New York City cannot handle more newsprint. Magazines pose a different problem. In printing TIME, we cannot currently use stock that contains more than 7% recycled paper; anything more and our high-speed printers would shred the magazine to pieces. However, as recycling technology improves, we aim to increase that percentage...
Gorbachev flatly denied the story next day, and no other news organization got even a shred of confirmation that resignation was imminent. But the furor demonstrated CNN's growing impact as the world's most widely circulated TV news network. It also raised questions about whether, given that global clout, CNN exercised due journalistic caution when dealing with a potential bombshell...
...Black male as a murderous, adulterous beast as a result of... historically biased media portrayal." Please. Aside from the KKK, did Maddox and Allen find a single white person (did they even ask one at all?) who replied that s/he considered Black men "murderous, adulterous beast[s]"? A single shred of evidence might begin to justify making that statement. Their subsequent anonymous quotation about a Black man "lurking in...the woods, poised to strike...", attributed merely to "the press," does not constitute such evidence...