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...Rather than charging customers for plastic bags, Capers Community Market, a whole-food grocery store throughout greater Vancouver, has a wonderful policy. If you don't need a grocery bag, you are given a discount. You can either receive 5? off your purchases or direct your savings to local charities. What a great idea: shoppers can save the environment and support local groups at the same time. Joanne Wannan, Vancouver

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

Rather than charging customers for plastic bags, Capers Community Market, a whole-food grocery store throughout greater Vancouver, has a wonderful policy. If you don't need a grocery bag, you are given a discount. You can either receive 5 cents off your purchases or direct your savings to local charities. What a great idea: shoppers can save the environment and support local groups at the same time. Joanne Wannan, VANCOUVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Abiding Anguish | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

Goodbye, World of Make-Believe My husband and I were somewhat disappointed to see the final issue of Weekly World News at the grocery store [Aug. 27]. No matter how exhausting the chore of grocery shopping was, we always got a chuckle from headlines like DICK CHENEY IS A ROBOT and, my all-time favorite, FORGET HELL, SCIENTISTS DISCOVER HECK. It can't be easy to make up stories like that. Lisa Amber, ST. GERMAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Abiding Anguish | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

...airing of the confession, were at first skeptical of Pichuzkin's stories. But three of the homeless men he chucked into the sewer survived; and one was lucid enough to identify Pichuzkin and to corroborate his modus operandi. And Pichuzkin's final victim - a co-worker at his grocery store - was skeptical enough about his tale of wanting to show her his dog's grave in the park that she told her son where she was going and gave him Pichuzkin's cellphone number. Pichuzkin was also caught on a subway surveillance cameras with the victim, and when confronted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grandmaster of Murder? | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

Long before going green was an international pastime, when the only corporate responsibility was to the bottom line, a small store opened in Brighton, England, selling homemade moisturizers and hair-care products packaged in plastic urine-sample jars. The cosmetics were all-natural, the containers were reusable and the ethos - creating products that were as good for the earth as they were for your skin - was still considered radical, the kind of thing only hippies cared about. But when Anita Roddick opened The Body Shop in 1976, she wasn't thinking about changing the world, just supporting her family while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anita Roddick, the Queen of Green | 9/11/2007 | See Source »

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